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Eve and the Serpent
What happened in the Garden of Eden

Genesis 3:1-16
3:1
   Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
3:2
   And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3:3
   But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
3:4
   And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
3:5
   For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
3:6
   And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
3:7
   And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
3:8
   And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
3:9
   And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
3:10
   And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
3:11
   And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
3:12
   And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
3:13
   And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
3:14
   And the LORD God said unto 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:
3:15
   And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
3:16
   Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

2 Cor 11:1-3
11:3
   But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Matthew 13:23-30; 13:36-43
This is the parable of the tares.
13:23
   But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
13:24
   Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
13:25
   But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
13:26
   But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
13:27
   So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
13:28
   He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
13:29
   But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
13:30
   Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
This is the explaination of the parable of the tares, it is a direct answer to one of Christ's disciples.
13:36
   Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
13:37
   He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
13:38
   The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
13:39
   The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
13:40
   As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
13:41
   The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
13:42
   And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
13:43
   Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
This is proof that there are children of the "wicked one (Satan)" in the world as well as Children of God.

Strong's Definitions

Serpent #5175 Hebrew
nachash (naw-khawsh');

from OT:5172; a snake (from its hiss).

New Testament proof of the identity of the serpent.

Revelation

12:9   And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.


Touch #5060 Hebrew.
naga, naw-gah;

a primary root; prop. to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphem. to lie with a woman); by impl. to reach (fig. to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.): - beat, (x be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.

Tree #6086
ets, ates;

from 6095; a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plur. sticks):- carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.

Hebrew #6095
atsah, aw-tsaw';

a prim. root; prop. to fasten (or make firm), i.e. to close (the eyes):-shut.

Hebrew #929
behemah, be-hay-maw';

from an unused root (prob. mean. to be mute); prop. a dumb beast; espec. any large quadruped or animal (often collect.):- beast, cattle.

Seed #2233 Hebrew
zera` zeh'-rah;

from 'zara`' (2232); seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity:- carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing- time.

Hebrew #2232
zara`, zaw-rah';

a primitive root; to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify:-bear, conceive seed, set with sow(-er), yield.

Beast #2416 Hebrew
chay, khah'-ee;

from 'chayah' (2421); alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively:-+ age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.

#2421 Hebrew
chayah, khaw-yaw' ;

a primitive root (compare 'chavah' (2331), 'chayah' (2421)); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive:--keep (leave, make) alive, certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, ( God) save (alive, life, lives), surely, be whole.

#2331 Hebrew
chavah, khaw-vah';

a primitive root; (compare 'chava'' (2324), 'chayah' (2421)); properly, to live; by implication (intensively) to declare or show:-show.

#2324 Hebrew
chava', khav-aw';

(Aramaic) corresponding to 'chavah' (2331); to show:-shew.

Serpent #3789 Greek.
ophis, of'-is;

prob. from 3700 (through the idea of sharpness of vision); a snake, fig. (as a type of sly cunning) an artful malicious person, espec. Satan:- serpent.

Beguile #1818 Greek.
exapatao, ex-ap-at-ah-o;

from 1537 and 538; to seduce wholly:- beguile, deceive.