Chapter Summary: The Bean Trees

In chapter 3, God has finally finished creating things, and now life can play out on its own. Although has made some rules for the two humans, not to eat from the tree of knowledge. Later in the story, the woman meets a snake in the garden, and this snake is naked among all the other animals. He ends up talking the woman and says that God will not allow her to eat any of the fruits of the garden. She replies saying that you can eat all the fruit in the garden, except for the tree that is in the center of the garden. The snake ends up leading her to eat the fruit and then give it to Adam. They realized that they were naked and clothed themselves, and were given the knowledge of good and bad.

I think that they are still alive because this is

This is literally my reasoning for why Adam and Chava didn’t die, because God wanted them to eat from the tree. Another example is when God actually created man and it says: “וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאָדָם בְּצַלְמוֹ”, that God created man in His image. This supports my reasoning because God is a being of knowledge and anyone like Him is also full of knowledge. My other example is that when they actually ate from the tree, they didn’t die. It says: “וַתִּפָּקַחְנָה, עֵינֵי שְׁנֵיהֶם, וַיֵּדְעוּ”, that they were enlightened, and they knew. This shows me that no matter what was said before, after Adam and Chava actually ate from the tree, they had been given the knowledge of the world, and the knowledge of

It says in the text: “וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים לָאִשָּׁה, מַה-זֹּאת עָשִׂית”, that God asked the woman, what have you done. He is saying this because He is in shock about the fact that His creation would do something like this to defy Him. Another reason is that God wasn’t planning on the woman to be influenced by the snake to eat from the tree, even though she knew not to eat from the tree. “וּמִפְּרִי הָעֵץ, אֲשֶׁר בְּתוֹךְ-הַגָּן-אָמַר אֱלֹהִים לֹא תֹאכְלוּ”, that she wasn’t allowed to eat from the tree in the center of the garden because God said so. This shows that God had faith in His creation, and that she would resist the urge to eat the fruit. The last example to support my opinion is when God has realized what has happened and then decides to punish man and woman. He says: “הֵן הָאָדָם הָיָה כְּאַחַד מִמֶּנּוּ, לָדַעַת, טוֹב וָרָע”. That man has become like Him, one who knows of the difference between Good and Bad. This shows that God never expected for man to become in any likeness to Him. This led Him to punish them and banish them from the Garden of