We see that after the fall, the relationship between God and man, and man’s mutual relationships are disturbed. Adam does not take the blame. He tries to shift it onto Eve and actually tries to blame the Lord. According to him, the woman is the reason he ate from that tree. It even sounds as if he is accusing God. After all, it is the woman that God gave him. Here, for the first time, we hear the allegation that reappears again and again in history: that God did not make man good enough. And that therefore man had to commit sin.
12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”