Genesis 3

The Serpent tempts woman by telling her show won't die if she eats the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, but instead become like God, know the difference between good and evil.  She then gives the fruit to her husband, who also eats, and they see that they are naked and make aprons of fig leaves to cover themselves.

Gold walks through the garden and cannot find them.  Again, God does not appear to be omnipotent and omniscient, as He walks instead of appearing where He wishes and is unable to find those that hide.  Yet later, we are told he knows every thought of every person.

Upon finding man and woman and learning what they have done, God curses the Serpent to crawl upon its belly and eternal enmity between it and the offspring of the woman.  He then curses the woman to increases pain in childbirth and gives her to her husband to rule over her.

He then curses the ground, interestingly not Adam (who is named in this chapter for the first time) to toil the ground.  As Adam had already been laboring at tilling the garden in the last chapter, toil appears to be something different.  One type of labor is divine, tilling, but another, toiling, is a curse. The notes and Asimov do not posit on the difference.  Further, God curses Adam to no longer be able to eat of the Tree of Life, which eventual death and to return to the dust from which he came.

Finally, God gives Adam and Eve (who has also been named) clothes made of skins and banishes them from the garden.  The gate of the garden is guarded by a "cherubin" and a flaming sword so that man may never return.  There is another reference by God to Himself as "us", leading to the question of where the other gods are.

Asimov notes there is only one other talking animal in the Bible and there aren't many human like animals in other Jewish traditions.  Perhaps the story of temptation is also borrowed?

GOD'S COMMANDMENT(S):

Genesis 3:6 - Since eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge will make Adam and Eve "wise" (meaning perhaps freedom from God), God has forbidden them from eating it.  But a talking snake talks Eve into it, who talks Adam into it.  The fact that Eve is talking to a snake that talks back indicates there are "magic" mushrooms in Eden.  Interesting God does not forbid them from eating that.

In any event, they eat, Adam must toil the soil and Eve must endure pain in childbirth, and incidentally be sexually reduced to mush at the sight of Adam.  The snake loses its legs.

DIFFICULTY OF FOLLOWING COMMANDMENT(S):

Nobody knows where the Tree of Knowledge is or if its even still around, so pretty easy to comply.


It seems to me that God is playing a head game with his creations and eating of the Tree of Knowledge would be a way to refuse to play.  As one wiser than I once said, if you know the game is fixed, you cannot lose if you refuse to play.  
GOD'S DEATH TOLL THIS CHAPTER:

Still zero, don't worry, the big one is right around the corner.  Spoiler alert, there's the drunk called Noah that God has plans for.

GOD'S RUNNING DEATH TOLL:

Zero