Genesis 3 for Pidgin: See how Satan tempt Adam and Eve, their disobedience, and how God send dem comot Garden of Eden.
📖 Genesis 3:1-24 in Pidgin English
1. Di serpent wey get plenty sabi, come talk to di woman, “You sure say God talk say no make you chop from any tree for di garden?”
2. Di woman talk to di serpent, “We fit chop di fruit from di trees for di garden,
3. But God talk say, ‘No chop fruit from di tree wey dey middle di garden, no touch am, make you no die.’”
4. But di serpent talk, “No be true! You no go die.
5. God sabi say if you chop di fruit, your eye go open, you go sabi good and bad like God.”
6. Di woman see say di fruit fine and e fit make person sabi well-well, so she chop am. She give her husband, and e chop too.
7. After dem chop, their eye open; dem realize say dem naked, so dem sew fig leaves put for body.
8. When sun begin set, dem hear God waka for garden. Adam and Eve hide from God for among trees.
9. God call Adam, “Where you dey?”
10. Adam answer, “I hear your waka for garden and I fear because I naked, so I hide.”
11. God ask, “Who tell you say you naked? You chop from di tree wey I tell you no chop?”
12. Adam blame Eve, “Di woman wey you give me, she give me fruit, I chop.”
13. God ask Eve, “Why you do like dis?” She blame serpent, “Di serpent trick me, so I chop.”
14. God talk to serpent, “Because you do dis, you go dey crawl for ground, and eat dust all your life.
15. I go put enmity between you and woman, and between your children and her children. Her children go bruise your head, and you go bite their heel.”
16. God talk to woman, “I go make your children suffer pain when dem born. You go want your husband but him go rule you.”
17. God talk to Adam, “Because you listen to your wife and chop fruit wey I no tell you, ground go cursed because of you.
18. You go sweat to plant food all your life till you return to ground, because you come from dust.
19. You go die, dust go go back to dust.”
20. Adam name him wife “Eve,” because she be mother of all living.
21. God make clothes for Adam and Eve with animal skin, and put am on dem.
22. Then God talk, “If dem chop from tree of life, dem go live forever.”
23. So God send Adam and Eve comot from Garden of Eden, to work ground wey get thorns and weeds.
24. God place cherubim with flaming sword to guard di way to tree of life.
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