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until the Day of Resurrection,’ 22 Thus he cunningly seduced
15 and God replied, ‘You are them. When they tasted the tree’s
granted respite.’ 16 Then Satan fruit, their nakedness became
said, ‘Because You have put me exposed to them and they started
in the wrong, I will lie in ambush covering themselves with the
for them on Your straight path: leaves of the garden. Their Lord
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then I will surely come upon called out to them, ‘Did I not
them from before them and from forbid you to approach that tree,
behind them and from their right and did I not say to you that
and from their left, and then You Satan was surely your open
will find most of them enemy?’ 23 They replied, ‘Our
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ungrateful.’ He said, ‘Get out Lord, we have wronged our
of here, despised, and rejected! I souls: if You do not forgive us
shall fill Hell with all of those and have mercy on us, we shall
who follow you.’ be among the lost.’ 24 He said,
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To Adam He said, ‘You and ‘Go down from here as enemies
your wife, dwell in the Garden to each other. For a while, there
and eat and drink there from is an abode for you and a
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wherever you wish, but do not provision on earth. There you
approach this tree, lest you will live; there you will die; from
become wrongdoers.’ 20 But there you will be raised up again.’
Satan tempted them so that he 26 O children of Adam! We
might reveal to them their have sent down to you clothes to
nakedness which had been cover your nakedness, and to be
hidden from them. He said, ‘Your pleasing to the eye; but the
Lord has forbidden you to raiment of righteousness is the
approach this tree lest you should best. That is one of the signs of
become angels or become of the God. So that people may take
immortals,’ 21 and he swore heed. 27 Children of Adam, do
to them, ‘Surely, I am your not let Satan seduce you, just as
well-wisher.’ he turned your parents out of the