This chapter continues the piece commenced at Gen. 2:4. The same combination of divine names is found here, except in the dialogue between the serpent and the woman, where God (אֱלֹהִים) alone is used. It is natural for the tempter to use only the more distant and abstract name of God. It narrates in simple terms the fall of man. v. 1. The serpent is here called a beast of the field, that is, neither a domesticated animal, nor one of the smaller sorts. The Lord God had made it, and therefore it was