Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.
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In The King James Version
And 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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Cross References
Genesis 2:18And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him
Genesis 2:22And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.
1 Samuel 15:15And Saul said, They have taken them from the Amalekites: for the people have kept the best of the sheep and of the oxen as an offering to the Lord your God; all the rest we have given up to destruction.
1 Samuel 15:21But the people took some of their goods, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which were put to the curse, to make an offering of them to the Lord your God in Gilgal.
Proverbs 19:3By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.
Luke 10:29But he, desiring to put himself in the right, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:12-14
11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? 12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. We have here the offenders found guilty by their own confession, and yet endeavouring to excuse and extenuate their fault. They could not confess… Read the whole commentary →