Creation & Patriarchs
The fall
The fall has no date in the Modern reckoning; the Traditional reckoning puts it in 4004 BC. It is told in Genesis 3:6. Adam, Eve, God are part of it.
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
When did it happen?
- Modern reckoning
- undated
- Traditional reckoning
- 4004 BC
- How it's dated
- the genealogies
Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.
Sources: Theographic event 3.
Where is it in the Bible?
Who was there, and where?
Where: Eden.
Promises kept
- The first promise: Genesis written → The crucifixion, ~1,440–1,480 years (Modern).
- The woman's offspring: Genesis written → Jesus is born, ~1,400–1,440 years (Modern).
Which verses connect to Genesis 3:6?
The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).
- 1 John 2:1635 votes
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
- James 1:14–1528 votes
But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed. Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
- 1 Timothy 2:1419 votes
And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who was deceived and fell into transgression.
- 2 Samuel 11:212 votes
One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
- Joshua 7:2110 votes
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
- Romans 5:12–1910 votes
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned. For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law. …
Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.