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PART 3

What Was Life Like in Paradise?

Jehovah gave Adam and Eve many good things. Genesis 1:28

After Jehovah makes Eve, he gives her to Adam

Jehovah made the first woman, Eve, and gave her to Adam to be his wife.​—Genesis 2:21, 22.

Jehovah created them with minds and bodies that were perfect, without any flaw.

Adam and Eve gaze at their Paradise home

Their Paradise home was the garden of Eden​—a place of great beauty with a river and fruit trees and animals.

Jehovah spoke to them; he taught them. If they listened to him, they would live forever in Paradise on earth.

God said not to eat from one of the trees. Genesis 2:16, 17

The tree in the garden that Jehovah told Adam and Eve not to eat from

Jehovah showed Adam and Eve one fruit tree in the garden and told them that if they ate from it, they would die.

The wicked angel, Satan the Devil, uses a serpent to talk to Eve

One of the angels rebelled against God. That wicked angel is Satan the Devil.

Satan did not want Adam and Eve to obey Jehovah. So he used a serpent to tell Eve that if she ate the fruit from that tree, she would not die, but she would be like God. Of course, that was a lie.​—Genesis 3:1-5.