Malcom: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience.
Day 83.
this is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth.
When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, neither wild plants nor grains
were growing in the earth for the Lord.
God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were
no people to cultivate the soil.
Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land.
And then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground.
He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils and
the man became a living person.
And then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east,
and there he placed the man.
He had made the Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the
ground, trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit.
In the middle of a garden, he placed the tree of life.
And the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden, and
then dividing into four branches.
The first branch called the Hon flowed around the entire land
of Avila where gold is found.
The gold of that land is exceptionally pure aromatic resin and onyx
stone are also found there.
The second branch called the Gahan float around the entire land of Kosh.
The third branch called the Tigris Float, east of the land of Asser.
The fourth branch is called the Euphrates.
The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.
But the Lord God warned him, you may freely eat the fruit of every
tree in the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die, then the Lord God said, It
is not good for the man to be alone.
I will make a helper who is just right for him.
So the Lord God formed from the ground, all the wild animals
and all the birds of the sky.
He brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and the
man chose a name for each one.
He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the
sky and all the wild animals.
But still, there was no helper just right for him.
So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep while the man slept.
The Lord God took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the opening.
Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib and he brought her to the man.
At last, the man exclaimed.
This one is bone from my bone and flesh from my flesh.
She will be called woman because she was taken from man.
This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his
wife and the two are united into one.
Now, the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.
The serpent was the shrouds of all the wild animals the Lord God had made.
One day he asked the woman, did God really say you must not eat the fruit
from any of the trees in the garden?
I.
Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden.
The woman replied, it's only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the
garden that we are not allowed to eat.
God said, you must not eat it or even touch it.
If you do, you will die.
You won't die.
The serpent replied to the woman.
God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be
like God, knowing both good and evil.
The woman was convinced.
She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she
wanted the wisdom it would give her.
So she took some of the fruit and ate it.
Then she gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it too.
At that moment, their eyes were opened and they suddenly felt shame
at their nakedness, so they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.
When the cool evening breezes were blowing.
The man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden.
So they hid from the Lord God among the trees.
Then the Lord God called to the man, where are you?
He replied, I heard you walking in the garden.
So I hid.
I was afraid because I was naked.
Who told you that you are naked?
The Lord God asked, have you eaten from the tree whose fruit
I commanded you not to eat?
The man replied.
It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit and I ate it.
Then the Lord God asked the woman, what have you done?
The serpent deceived me.
She replied, that's why I ate it.
Then the Lord God said to the serpent, because you have done this, you are cursed
more than all animals, domestic and wild.
You will crawl on your belly groveling in the dust as long as you live,
and I will cause hostility between you and the woman and between
your offspring and her offspring.
He will strike your head and you will strike his heel.
Then he said to the woman, I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy and in pain
you will give birth and you will desire to control your husband, but he will
rule over you and to the man he said.
Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded
you not to eat, the ground is cursed.
Because of you all your life, you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
It'll grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.
By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you returned to the
ground from which you were made for.
You were made from dust and to dust.
You will return.
Then the man Adam, named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all
who live, and the Lord God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife.
Then the Lord God said, look, the human beings have become like
us, knowing both good and evil.
What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life and eat it?
Then they will live forever.
So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to
cultivate the ground from which he had been made after sending them out, the Lord
God stationed mighty cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden, and he placed a
flaming sword that flashed back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
This concludes today's Immer reading experience.
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