1 Now the serpent was shrewder than any of the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Is it really true that God said, ‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard; 3 but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said, ‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.’”

10 And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month—on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And the rain fell on the earth 40 days and 40 nights.

16 While he was working it he was naked but did not realize it nor was he ashamed. He would guard the garden against birds, animals, and cattle. He would gather its fruit and eat it and would store its surplus for himself and his wife. He would store what was being kept. 17 When the conclusion of the seven years which he had completed there arrived — seven years exactly — in the second month, on the seventeenth, the serpent came and approached the woman. The serpent said to the woman: 'Is it from all the fruit of the trees in the garden that the Lord has commanded you: “Do not eat from it?”' 18 She said to him: 'From all the fruit of the trees which are in the garden the Lord told us: “Eat.” But from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden he told us: “Do not eat from it and do not touch it so that you may not die.”'