Advent Season · The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary · Year B
Genesis 3:9-15, 20
The Fall of Man
December 8, 2026
Overview & Insights
“I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your offspring and hers.” (Genesis 3:15)
The interchange among the man, the woman, and the serpent provides dramatic movement, and captures how motivation to disobey God rises from an inversion of the order of responsibility that God had established.
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Commentary
Commentary on Genesis 3:8-15 Working Preacher
Luther Seminary reading of the garden judgment and the promise about the woman's offspring (the RCL form overlaps this reading).
Genesis 3 Commentary: Man's Temptation and Fall Enduring Word · David Guzik
David Guzik's evangelical verse by verse notes on the fall and the first gospel promise.
Genesis 3 Commentary Precept Austin
Verse by verse study library with Hebrew word notes on the fall of humanity.
Genesis 3:9 Commentaries BibleHub
Classic commentators compiled on God's questioning of Adam and the protoevangelium.
Background & Word Study
Genesis 3:9 Interlinear BibleHub
Hebrew text of the garden scene word by word with parsing and Strong's numbers.
Genesis 3 | Sefaria Library Sefaria
Hebrew and English text of Genesis 3 with classical Jewish commentaries such as Rashi.
Genesis - Enter the Bible Enter the Bible
Luther Seminary background on the composition and themes of Genesis.
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Questions preachers ask
Why read the Fall in Advent?
Genesis 3 tells why a Savior must come, and hides the first promise of the gospel: the woman's offspring will crush the serpent's head. The season answers Eden's ruin.
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