Genesis 3:12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”

We covered “His Sin” yesterday. Let us follow up with the woman’s role in all this.

Adam’s answer to God’s accusation is Adam’s first answer born of sin.

God first gave Adam the responsibility for subduing all things under his hand. Genesis 2:15.

Adam’s first answer in sin was to shirk his responsibility for his sin and blame the woman. 

Genesis 3:16 To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

If we were to think of desire as an emotional response to a physical need, we would be wrong.

If the husband acts responsibly and loves his wife as Christ loves His church, then a woman should want what the man wants, which is what is best for her. 

It is a matter of cooperation, not to be subject to the man but to be a good partner.

Note closely I said “should want” which is a choice the woman has to make. Free will has not been revoked.

Leviticus 4:28 English Standard Version

or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.

Lexicon :: Strong’s H2403 – ḥaṭṭā’āṯ

Part of Speech

feminine noun

Root Word (Etymology)

From חָטָא (H2398)

The word for “his sin” is a feminine noun but the root word is a verb and is not gender specific.

I am no linguist so I do not understand how a verb  that is a feminine noun is rendered in the masculine tense.

When I asked the Lord He reminded me that the sin always lands on the head of the man, as it did for Adam and as it did for Christ.

Adam became the head of the wife in Genesis 3:16.

1 Corinthians 11:3 But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

When it comes to sin, repentance and forgiveness we must leave the issue of gender out of it and listen to the head of the body.

Ephesians 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

Husbands love their wives as Christ loves us. Our responsibility.