Holy Scripture

Genesis 3:13

A church father on this verse
“Since Adam did not wish to confess his folly, God came down to question Eve and said to her, "What is this that you have done?" Eve too, instead of making supplication with her tears and bearing the fault herself so that mercy might take hold of both her and her husband, responded by saying not "The serpent counseled…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 2.28-29

Source: Septuagint

Original

13And the Lord God said to the woman, Why hast thou done this? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me and I ate.

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In context

11And God said to him, Who told thee that thou wast naked, unless thou hast eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it alone not to eat?

12And Adam said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me—she gave me of the tree and I ate.

— Genesis 3:13 —

14And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle and all the brutes of the earth, on thy breast and belly thou shalt go, and thou shalt eat earth all the days of thy life.

15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed, he shall watch against thy head, and thou shalt watch against his heel.

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