12And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: …
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-13)The prisoners being found guilty by their own confession, besides the personal and infallible knowledge of the Judge, and nothing material being offered in arrest of judgment, God immediately proceeds to pass sentence; and, in these verses, he begins (where the sin began) with the serpent. God did not examine the serpent, nor ask him what he had done nor why he did it; but immediately sentenced hi…
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