Betrayal

When God showed up they had already hidden from one another and now they hid from the Lord. Their new knowledge had seemingly only brought the knowledge of "evil", that which was not good.  The Lord had already told them that what "is" was good so what benefit was there in the knowledge of that which was evil?  Evil was their disobedience and the opening of their eyes, not their nakedness.  As the southern comedian Lewis Grizzard once said, "Southerners can use the same word and create new meanings by pronunciation.  There is "naked" which means you ain't got no clothes on and then there is "nekkid" which means you ain't got no clothes on and you are up to something."  They were now nekkid so they knew shame and hid themselves from God, a futile activity.

When God questions Adam where he got the knowledge that he was naked, responds, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”  He threw her under the bus, blamed her even though it was he who was given the commandment by God.  In fact, he also blames God who had given him the woman.  The woman gave him the fruit and God gave him the woman.  Sure, he ate the fruit, but surely it was okay since the woman gave it to him and God had given her to him, perhaps there had been a misunderstanding, but if not it really wasn't his fault.  After Adam blamed Eve for his sin it is amazing that they ever got together to be fruitful and multiply.  Now he needed forgiveness from her as well.

Eve's excuse was that the serpent tricked her but he hadn't deceived her at all had he?  We are told she saw it was good for food, a delight to the eyes and desirable to make one wise, all on her own, not because of the serpent.  At least she didn't blame Adam but that would be an outright lie, not a little fudging of truth because there is a difference between the two isn't there?  No.  

Now, sin has entered the world and has to be dealt with but they do not in fact surely die, but they will, and now an animal loses its life to cover their sin, a pattern for what will come in the covenant sacrificial system.  God gives grace to them both but now things will be more difficult for them, there is a price to pay for sin.

We don't hear the conversation between the humans so we don't know how they sorted out their issues, but the fulfillment of the command to be fruitful and multiply is now a part of the curse, the pain of childbirth is multiplied and also, their relationship is different, her desire will be for her husband but he will rule over her, their partnership is more alienated, the man will seek to have dominion over her as he does the rest of creation.  She will be less in his eyes than originally, no longer an equal.