Dr. Dylan Johnson

And the woman says, yes.

And the snake explains, that's not true.

If you eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, you will not die.

So saying the exact inverse of what God said.

Surely you will not die.

So for centuries, scholars, theologians have interpreted this snake as nothing less than Satan.

The first instance of Satan in a serpentine form, enticing humanity to sin.

And the idea here is that what the snake is saying is a lie.

The snake is lying and God was telling the truth.

He's deceiving.

He's deceiving them.

He's leading them down a dangerous path.

And ultimately, the woman believes the snake.

She eats from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

And the quotation is that their eyes were opened and they realized that they were naked.

And this is very clearly a play on words here, because the word for nakedness is arumim, and the word for snake is arum.

So the snake and nakedness are playing off of each other at a grammatical, linguistic level there.

So they realize that they're naked.

They create loincloths out of the leaves of the trees of the garden.

And we get the scene, which is very unique in the way that God is depicted.