Genesis is the story of how the earth was created by someone named God. The author of this story is Moses. In Genesis, Moses depicts God spending six days creating the earth. God creates the water, the sky, the light, and eventually he creates man. He creates a man named Adam, and he puts him in his own garden, called the garden of Eden. Next, god decides that Adam should not be alone, so he takes one of Adam's ribs and creates a woman named Eve. Moses makes God seem almost like a father figure to Adam and Eve. In the story God creates man out of his own image, so he is obviously going to have some connection to man. God also gives man rule over all the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves. This means that God is bestowing a good amount of trust in man. He might even trust them too much for their own good in this story.
             Adam and Eve live together in the garden of Eden with only one very specific rule from God. God tells them that they cannot eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and if they do eat from it God says, "thou shalt surely die" (Genesis 2-17). God eventually creates animals for Adam and Eve, and among these animals is the serpent. The serpent tells Eve that she won't die if she eats from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Eve believes the serpent and she eats from the tree, and also feeds Adam fruit from the tree. God comes into the garden and he punishes Adam and Eve for eating from the tree. Their punishment is well deserved because God had given them fair warning about the tree.
             In his story, Moses writes that God first punishes the serpent for telling Eve that it was acceptable to eat from the tree. God says to the serpent, " Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life" (Genesis 3-14). The serpents' punishment is to be ca...