The Serpent

The Serpent is נָחָשׁ (Nāḥāš) in its original Hebrew depiction in the Bible. The Serpent is the snake that lured Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, to which she then fed to Adam. Thus dooming them to human thoughts, emotions, and sin and being lead out and banned from the Garden of Eden. There are many thoughts and approaches and theories to who the serpent actually was: a regular snake, the devil, or a metaphor. As a consequence of tricking Eve into eating the fruit, God punished snakes by taking away their legs and forcing them to crawl on their bellies.
==See also==
* Snakes
* Serpents
Category:Biblical mythology
Category:Snakes in mythology
Category:Middle Eastern mythology
Category:Christian mythology
Category:International mythology