Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading: The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of ChildhoodPollard, Josephine
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Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading: The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood
Pollard, Josephine
Bible -- Paraphrases, English; Bible stories, English -- Juvenile literature; Christian life -- Juvenile literature
And God saw it was not good for man to be a-lone; he should have some
one to be with him and help him. So he had a deep sleep fall on Ad-am,
and while he slept God took out of his side a bone, and out of this bone
he made a wo-man. Then he brought this wo-man he had made to Ad-am, and
she was his wife.
Now there was in this gar-den of E-den a great big snake. And this snake
spoke to the wo-man--as Sa-tan speaks to us--to tempt her to sin.
The snake said: Has God told you not to eat of all the trees in the
gar-den?
And the wo-man said that they might eat of all but one; if they ate of
that or touched it they would be sure to die. The snake told them they
should not die, and that God did not wish them to eat of it for fear
they would grow wise, and know more than he thought was good for them.
The wo-man heard what the snake said, and when she saw that the tree was
nice to look at and the fruit seemed good to eat, she gave no thought to
what God had said, but took some of the fruit and ate of it; she gave
some to the man, Ad-am, and he did eat.
In a short time they heard a voice, and knew that God spoke to them. Yet
they did not come near him when they heard his voice, but ran and tried
to hide from him.
But God spoke once more, and said to the man, Where art thou?
And Ad-am said, I heard thy voice, and my fear was so great that I hid
from thee.
And God said, Did'st thou eat of the tree I told thee not to eat of?
And the man said, She whom thou dids't give me to be with me brought me
some of the fruit, and I did eat.
And God said to the man's wife, What is this that thou hast done?
And she told God what the snake had said, and how she came to eat of the
fruit, and God was wroth with them all. He said the snake should crawl
on the ground and eat dust all the days of its life; and he told the
wife she should know what it was to be sick and sad, and should have
much grief and care.
And God drove the man and his wife out of E-den, and would let them live
no more in that fair place. And he sent an-gels to keep watch, and a
sword of fire that would turn in all ways, so that the two whom God for
their sins drove out of E-den could not get back to the home they had
lost.
And God told Ad-am that as he had paid heed to what his wife said, and
did eat of the tree which the Lord had told him not to eat of, the
ground should bear no more fruit for him by it-self, as it had done up
to this time, and Ad-am would have to work hard all his life to raise
food to eat, and when he died he would go back to the dust out of which
he was made.
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