The Fall
The event in Genesis 3 when Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, bringing sin and death into the world. The serpent's temptation appealed to desire, beauty, and wisdom (3:6). Consequences were immediate and far-reaching: shame (3:7), broken relationship with God (3:8-10), pain in childbirth (3:16), toil in work (3:17-19), and death (3:19). Yet within the curse, God embedded the first gospel promise — the seed of the woman would crush the serpent's head (3:15). Romans 5:12-21 explains how Adam's fall affected all humanity and how Christ's obedience reverses it. The fall explains the human condition; the gospel provides the remedy.
Verses about The Fall
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בראשית 2:21
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
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בראשית 43:18
And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph’s house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the fi…
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בראשית 45:24
So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
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בראשית 49:17
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
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שמות 5:3
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord ou…
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שמות 15:16
Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O Lord, till the pe…
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שמות 21:33
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
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ויקרא 11:32
And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack,…
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ויקרא 11:37
And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
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ויקרא 11:38
But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.
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ויקרא 19:29
Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
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ויקרא 26:7
And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
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ויקרא 26:8
And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
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ויקרא 26:36
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf sha…
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ויקרא 26:37
And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
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במדבר 11:31
And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, …
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במדבר 14:3
And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better fo…
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במדבר 14:29
Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, wh…
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במדבר 14:32
But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
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במדבר 14:43
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the …