WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.960 Malcom: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:03.083 --> 00:00:03.923 Day 83. 00:00:04.269 --> 00:00:07.959 this is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth. 00:00:09.249 --> 00:00:14.199 When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, neither wild plants nor grains 00:00:14.204 --> 00:00:16.659 were growing in the earth for the Lord. 00:00:16.659 --> 00:00:19.629 God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were 00:00:19.629 --> 00:00:21.339 no people to cultivate the soil. 00:00:22.059 --> 00:00:25.929 Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land. 00:00:26.659 --> 00:00:30.009 And then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground. 00:00:30.549 --> 00:00:34.239 He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils and 00:00:34.239 --> 00:00:36.219 the man became a living person. 00:00:37.299 --> 00:00:40.659 And then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, 00:00:41.319 --> 00:00:42.549 and there he placed the man. 00:00:42.549 --> 00:00:46.539 He had made the Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the 00:00:46.539 --> 00:00:50.829 ground, trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. 00:00:51.699 --> 00:00:54.429 In the middle of a garden, he placed the tree of life. 00:00:54.969 --> 00:00:57.429 And the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 00:00:58.779 --> 00:01:02.289 A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden, and 00:01:02.289 --> 00:01:04.089 then dividing into four branches. 00:01:05.499 --> 00:01:09.489 The first branch called the Hon flowed around the entire land 00:01:09.489 --> 00:01:11.529 of Avila where gold is found. 00:01:12.309 --> 00:01:16.809 The gold of that land is exceptionally pure aromatic resin and onyx 00:01:16.809 --> 00:01:18.279 stone are also found there. 00:01:19.179 --> 00:01:23.019 The second branch called the Gahan float around the entire land of Kosh. 00:01:24.369 --> 00:01:28.059 The third branch called the Tigris Float, east of the land of Asser. 00:01:28.839 --> 00:01:30.849 The fourth branch is called the Euphrates. 00:01:32.259 --> 00:01:37.059 The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it. 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:42.339 But the Lord God warned him, you may freely eat the fruit of every 00:01:42.339 --> 00:01:46.359 tree in the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 00:01:46.869 --> 00:01:52.899 If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die, then the Lord God said, It 00:01:52.899 --> 00:01:54.699 is not good for the man to be alone. 00:01:55.149 --> 00:01:57.459 I will make a helper who is just right for him. 00:01:58.329 --> 00:02:01.569 So the Lord God formed from the ground, all the wild animals 00:02:01.869 --> 00:02:03.369 and all the birds of the sky. 00:02:03.879 --> 00:02:07.599 He brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and the 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:09.249 man chose a name for each one. 00:02:10.089 --> 00:02:13.149 He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the 00:02:13.149 --> 00:02:15.399 sky and all the wild animals. 00:02:16.299 --> 00:02:19.269 But still, there was no helper just right for him. 00:02:20.094 --> 00:02:25.374 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep while the man slept. 00:02:25.794 --> 00:02:29.694 The Lord God took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the opening. 00:02:30.534 --> 00:02:34.974 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib and he brought her to the man. 00:02:35.694 --> 00:02:37.734 At last, the man exclaimed. 00:02:38.304 --> 00:02:42.234 This one is bone from my bone and flesh from my flesh. 00:02:42.834 --> 00:02:46.944 She will be called woman because she was taken from man. 00:02:48.189 --> 00:02:52.269 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his 00:02:52.269 --> 00:02:55.629 wife and the two are united into one. 00:02:56.739 --> 00:03:00.909 Now, the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame. 00:03:02.469 --> 00:03:06.699 The serpent was the shrouds of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. 00:03:07.509 --> 00:03:12.279 One day he asked the woman, did God really say you must not eat the fruit 00:03:12.339 --> 00:03:14.169 from any of the trees in the garden? 00:03:14.699 --> 00:03:14.819 I. 00:03:15.189 --> 00:03:18.069 Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden. 00:03:18.489 --> 00:03:22.209 The woman replied, it's only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the 00:03:22.209 --> 00:03:23.979 garden that we are not allowed to eat. 00:03:24.489 --> 00:03:27.939 God said, you must not eat it or even touch it. 00:03:28.659 --> 00:03:30.729 If you do, you will die. 00:03:31.689 --> 00:03:32.979 You won't die. 00:03:33.129 --> 00:03:34.569 The serpent replied to the woman. 00:03:35.229 --> 00:03:39.549 God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be 00:03:39.549 --> 00:03:42.939 like God, knowing both good and evil. 00:03:44.109 --> 00:03:45.309 The woman was convinced. 00:03:46.029 --> 00:03:50.559 She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she 00:03:50.559 --> 00:03:52.299 wanted the wisdom it would give her. 00:03:53.229 --> 00:03:55.479 So she took some of the fruit and ate it. 00:03:56.169 --> 00:03:59.499 Then she gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it too. 00:04:00.579 --> 00:04:04.239 At that moment, their eyes were opened and they suddenly felt shame 00:04:04.239 --> 00:04:08.589 at their nakedness, so they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves. 00:04:09.819 --> 00:04:11.979 When the cool evening breezes were blowing. 00:04:12.729 --> 00:04:15.879 The man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. 00:04:16.329 --> 00:04:18.609 So they hid from the Lord God among the trees. 00:04:19.389 --> 00:04:22.689 Then the Lord God called to the man, where are you? 00:04:23.139 --> 00:04:26.079 He replied, I heard you walking in the garden. 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:27.009 So I hid. 00:04:27.609 --> 00:04:29.379 I was afraid because I was naked. 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:32.259 Who told you that you are naked? 00:04:32.799 --> 00:04:36.249 The Lord God asked, have you eaten from the tree whose fruit 00:04:36.249 --> 00:04:37.719 I commanded you not to eat? 00:04:38.769 --> 00:04:39.669 The man replied. 00:04:40.179 --> 00:04:43.599 It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit and I ate it. 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:48.039 Then the Lord God asked the woman, what have you done? 00:04:49.119 --> 00:04:50.499 The serpent deceived me. 00:04:50.499 --> 00:04:52.719 She replied, that's why I ate it. 00:04:53.829 --> 00:04:59.259 Then the Lord God said to the serpent, because you have done this, you are cursed 00:04:59.264 --> 00:05:02.529 more than all animals, domestic and wild. 00:05:03.204 --> 00:05:07.314 You will crawl on your belly groveling in the dust as long as you live, 00:05:07.794 --> 00:05:11.454 and I will cause hostility between you and the woman and between 00:05:11.454 --> 00:05:13.284 your offspring and her offspring. 00:05:14.004 --> 00:05:17.634 He will strike your head and you will strike his heel. 00:05:18.624 --> 00:05:23.724 Then he said to the woman, I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy and in pain 00:05:23.724 --> 00:05:28.674 you will give birth and you will desire to control your husband, but he will 00:05:28.674 --> 00:05:31.734 rule over you and to the man he said. 00:05:33.009 --> 00:05:36.909 Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded 00:05:36.909 --> 00:05:39.669 you not to eat, the ground is cursed. 00:05:39.669 --> 00:05:43.809 Because of you all your life, you will struggle to scratch a living from it. 00:05:44.529 --> 00:05:48.909 It'll grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains. 00:05:49.659 --> 00:05:53.919 By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you returned to the 00:05:53.919 --> 00:05:56.799 ground from which you were made for. 00:05:56.799 --> 00:06:00.009 You were made from dust and to dust. 00:06:00.369 --> 00:06:01.569 You will return. 00:06:02.634 --> 00:06:07.824 Then the man Adam, named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all 00:06:07.824 --> 00:06:12.894 who live, and the Lord God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife. 00:06:13.704 --> 00:06:18.054 Then the Lord God said, look, the human beings have become like 00:06:18.059 --> 00:06:20.604 us, knowing both good and evil. 00:06:21.174 --> 00:06:24.504 What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life and eat it? 00:06:24.834 --> 00:06:26.274 Then they will live forever. 00:06:27.444 --> 00:06:31.734 So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to 00:06:31.734 --> 00:06:37.164 cultivate the ground from which he had been made after sending them out, the Lord 00:06:37.164 --> 00:06:42.204 God stationed mighty cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden, and he placed a 00:06:42.204 --> 00:06:47.544 flaming sword that flashed back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life. 00:06:48.894 --> 00:06:51.744 This concludes today's Immer reading experience. 00:06:51.894 --> 00:06:52.884 Thank you for joining us.