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A Mirror Narrative in Genesis Six
The reason the woman sees that this thing is good and then takes it is precisely because of a snake. In genesis six, you have spiritual beings who see that women are omen, women are good, and they take them for themselves. It's a good example of a mirror narrative, or a way that the story is echoing and inverting. And maybe if you weren't comparing to genesis three, you might not know that right away. You might have to assume that, oh, was that bad? Were they not supposed to do that?