The Fall

3 Now the serpent^(A) 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’?^(B)”

⁴ “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.^(A)

⁵ “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,^(A) knowing good and evil.”

¹⁴ So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,

David Counts the Fighting Men^(A)

21 Satan^(B) rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census^(C) of Israel.

⁶ One day the angels^[a](A) came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan^[b](B) also came with them.^(C)

⁷ The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”

Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”^(A)

⁹ “Does Job fear God for nothing?”^(A) Satan replied. ¹⁰ “Have you not put a hedge^(B) around him and his household and everything he has?^(C) You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land.^{(D) 11} But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has,^(E) and he will surely curse you to your face.”^(F)

¹² The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has^(G) is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.”^(H)

Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.