First Reading: Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7

⁷ then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
⁸ And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
⁹ And out of the ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
¹ Now the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God say, `You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
<sup>2</sup> And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;
<sup>3</sup> but God said, `You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”
⁴ But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die.
⁵ For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
⁶ So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, and he ate.
⁷ Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.