“Who told you that you were naked?” the Lord God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?”
The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me that gave me the fruit and I ate it.” Adam blamed God — in an indirect way but nevertheless blamed Him — even though Adam disobeyed.
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