Genesis 3:1-15
“Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”
He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Memory Verse
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth". Genesis 1:1
Activity
Kiera asked several nights ago to act out these verses. I'm planning to use play-dough to make a serpent to use.
How It Went
Kiera insisted on acting out the verses as I read them, which didn't work as well as I would have liked. I'd hoped to talk through the story after reading the verses (which she didn't want to do), acting them out at that time. I'd rather have devotion time be conflict-free, so I agreed to do things her way this time. Andrews enjoyed watching and listening to our little play. He also got to add clothes to Eve in our Creation Box. Our Adam is really just a head and arms sticking out from behind a bush, so he didn't get clothes!
Adam (left) with Eve.
Another Possible Activity
It might be fun to create a sort of paper doll activity for these scriptures. Make one girl and one boy paper doll, which would start out plain white (have the kids color) or flesh colored cardstock (naked). Then as the kids act out the story on their own, they add construction paper "leaves" or even leaves from a silk flower and then "skins" made out of construction paper, fabric, leather, or fake fur. This is an activity the kids could do again and again if supplies were kept in ziplock bags. It could even be used as a "busy bag" (a project that you can pull out when you want the kids to be occupied in a constructive way that doesn't require massive amounts of adult assistance).
