Genesis 3:12
The man answered, “The woman you placed beside me, she gave me fruit from the tree and I ate.”
Open English Bible (US)
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.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 2:18Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the human to be alone; I will make a helper suited to him.”
Genesis 2:22With the rib which he had taken from the human, the Lord built up a woman and brought her to the human.
Luke 10:29But the man, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
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 →