Question: who was the first person to eat an apple

title: Adam and Eve
text: In the next narrative dialogue , God questions the man and the woman ( Genesis 3 : 8 -- 13 ) , and God initiates a dialogue by calling out to the man with a rhetorical question designed to consider his wrongdoing . The man explains that he hid in the garden out of fear because he realized his own nakedness ( Genesis 3 : 10 ) . This is followed by two more rhetorical questions designed to show awareness of a defiance of God 's command . The man then points to the woman as the real offender , and he implies that God is responsible for the tragedy because the woman was given to him by God ( Genesis 3 : 12 ) . God challenges the woman to explain herself , whereby she shifts the blame to the serpent ( Genesis 3 : 13 ) . The