But the serpent was sotyller than all the beastes of the felde which
y^e LORde God had made/ and sayd vnto the woman. Ah syr/ that God hath
sayd/ ye shall not eate of all maner trees in the garden. And the
woman sayd vnto the serpent/ of the frute of the trees in the garden
we may eate/ but of the frute of the tree y^t is in the myddes of the
garden (sayd God) se that ye eate not/ and se that ye touch it not:
lest ye dye.
Then sayd the serpent vnto the woman: tush ye shall not dye: But God
doth knowe/ that whensoever ye shulde eate of it/ youre eyes shuld be
opened and ye shulde be as God and knowe both good and evell. And the
woman sawe that it was a good tree to eate of and lustie vnto the eyes
and a pleasant tre for to make wyse. And toke of the frute of it and
ate/ and gaue vnto hir husband also with her/ and he ate. And the eyes
of both of them were opened/ that they vnderstode how that they were
naked. Than they sowed fygge leves togedder and made them apurns.
And they herd the voyce of the LORde God as he walked in the gardẽ in
the coole of the daye. And Adam hyd hymselfe and his wyfe also from
the face of the LORde God/ amonge the trees of the garden. And the
LORde God called Adam and sayd vnto him where art thou? And he
answered. Thy voyce I harde in the garden/ but I was afrayd because I
was naked/ and therfore hyd myselfe. And he sayd: who told the that
thou wast naked? hast thou eaten of the tree/ of which I bade the that
thou shuldest not eate? And Adam answered. The woman which thou gavest
to bere me company she toke me of the tree/ ãd I ate. And the LORde
God sayd vnto the woman: wherfore didest thou so? And the woman
answered/ the serpent deceaved me and I ate.
¶ And the LORde God sayd vnto the serpẽt because thou haste so done
moste cursed be thou of all catell and of all beastes of the feld:
vppõ thy bely shalt thou goo: and erth shalt thou eate all dayes of
thy lyfe. Morover I will put hatred betwene the and the woman/ and
betwene thy seed and hyr seed. And that seed shall tread the on the
heed/ ãd thou shalt tread hit on the hele.
And vnto the woman he sayd: I will suerly encrease thy sorow ãd make
the oft with child/ and with payne shalt thou be deleverd: And thy
lustes shall pertayne vnto thy husbond and he shall rule the.
And vnto Adã he sayd: for as moch as thou hast obeyed the voyce of thy
wyfe/ and hast eaten of the tree of which I commaunded the saynge: se
thou eate not therof: cursed be the erth for thy sake. In sorow shalt
thou eate therof all dayes of thy lyfe/ And it shall beare thornes ãd
thystels vnto the. And thou shalt eate the herbes of y^e feld: In the
swete of thy face shalt thou eate brede/ vntill thou returne vnto the
erth whẽce thou wast takẽ: for erth thou art/ ãd vnto erth shalt thou
returne.
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