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Adam and Eve
When God had rested for a while, he got down to making the most beautiful garden. He called it the Garden of Eden. It had wonderful trees, and flowers. It even had lots of birds and animals in it. Whatever your favourite animal is, it was there.
God put the man he had made into the garden. The man rubbed his eyes and looked all round. God said to him, 'Now listen, Adam (that was the man's name) you can eat the fruit, climb the trees, paddle in the rivers and jump over the bushes, but there's one thing you must never do. You must never eat the apples from the big tree in the middle of the garden because that tree tells you what is good and what is bad.'
Adam said, 'What's bad?'
'Never mind,' said God, 'you go and have a nice time, and forget about that tree.'
God peeped out of the sky quite often to see how Adam was getting on, and soon he realised Ð Adam was lonely. God thought, 'he hasn't got any friends, no one to talk to Ð he will become unhappy soon.'
So one night, when Adam was asleep, God made a woman to be a friend for him. He called her Eve.
Adam and Eve got on very well together. They used to play with the animals, and eat lots of fruit from all the trees. Except one - the forbidden tree.
One day they decided to walk to the middle of the garden, and there was the most beautiful apple hanging from this special tree.
There was also a big nasty snake in the tree, who said, 'Hey, why don't you two eat that apple, it's the nicest, biggest, juiciest apple I ever saw.' Adam looked worried. 'We're not allowed to, God said so.'
'Oh, don't worry about that,' said the horrible snake. 'Have a bite, go on.'
Adam looked at Eve, and Eve looked at Adam, and the apple looked lovely. Eve tasted the apple.
'Go on, try it,' she said. Adam had a bite, and at once felt ashamed because he hadn't any clothes on.
It just happened that God was walking in the garden that day, and when Adam and Eve heard him coming up the path, they ran to hide.
God was very angry when he found them. 'You have eaten the fruit, haven't you?' he demanded. Adam said they had, but explained that the snake said it would be all right.
God told the snake that he was going to be the nastiest animal in the world, and he told Adam and Eve that now they would know everything about good and bad, for what good it would do them, and he turned them out of the garden of Eden and said they must look after themselves.
There was a great storm, and God went back to Heaven, leaving a flaming sword to make sure nobody touched the tree again.
You will find all of these stories beautifully read on the Old Testament recordings
The Creation
Adam and Eve
Noah's Ark
• All about Jacob
• Joseph's lovely coat
• Joseph meets the King (and helps him)
• Moses - and how he started life
• Moses later
• Ten nasty plagues
• Over the Red Sea
• Bread from Heaven
• The children meet God
The ten do's and don'ts
• The baby cow - made of gold
• Moses goes to Heaven
• The Walls of Jericho fall down
• Gideon has a date with an angel
• Samson tries to make a joke
• Samson has a haircut
• Samson brings the house down
• David and Goliath
• Solomon - his wisdom and his gold
• Elijah
• Elijah goes, Elisha arrives
• Books, battles and burn-ups
• Daniel reads the writing on the wall
• Daniel and the lions
• The return to Jerusalem
• Jonah and the whale
You can listen to these Childrens Bible Stories on your MP3 player or computer, or burn them to CD.
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