Charles Spurgeon Commentary Genesis 3:13

"And Jehovah God said unto the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat." — Genesis 3:13 (ASV)

And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done?

Oh, that question! How far-reaching it is!

By her action, and her husband's, the floodgates had been pulled up, and the flood of sin had been let loose upon the world. They had struck a match and set the world on fire with sin.

And every one of our sins is essentially of the same nature and has in it, substantially, the same mischief. Oh, that at any time when we have sinned, God would ask each one of us the question, "What is it that you have done?"

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.

How often we throw the blame of our sin on the devil, who certainly has enough to bear without the added guilt of our iniquity!

What Eve said was true, but it was not a sufficient reason for her sin. She should not have been beguiled by the serpent.

And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

Still, you see, there is no confession of guilt, but only the attempt to push the blame onto somebody else. The Lord God did not ask the serpent anything, for he knew that he was a liar, but he immediately pronounced sentence on him: