Based on Genesis 2:15-25 and 3:1-24
 POY! SKIT GUIDELINES:
- In a small group, participants might simply read their lines, or glance at their lines to get the idea so they can speak in their own words.
- Most POY! skits require no practice in advance.
- Have any small children play a brief part. Most scripts have an optional part for children, listed last under Participants.
- Most scripts have a Narrator who should read the script beforehand to see how to keep moving the story along.
- It is not necessary to employ costumes and objects, unless the skit recommends such.
- It is not required to have an audience watch the skit. All present may participate.
- Scripture and paraphrases, if any, usually appear in bold.
PARTICIPANTS:
Angel (Also serves as Narrator)
Adam
Eve
Satan
Voice (of God)Prompter (Optional). Prompter shouts a brief line and Companions repeat it.
Companions (Optional): children and all adults who want to take part. Make sure Companions know who the Prompter is, and that they are to repeat Prompter’s words.
SCRIPT:
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Angel |
We angels watch with great curiosity as Satan takes on the form of a serpent, actually a dragon, and tempts you humans’ first parents to disobey God, bringing death to them and all their descendants That includes human every man, woman and child. |
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Adam |
Oh, look, Eve, how wonderfully good everything God made is! The trees are so majestic! |
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Eve |
Just look at these trees! Aren’t they beautiful? |
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Prompter & |
(Stand near Adam with arms outstretched like limbs.) We are trees! Aren’t we beautiful? |
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Eve |
Oh, Adam, just look around this marvelous garden of Eden! It’s a paradise! |
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Adam |
Our beloved Creator has made everything for our happiness and enjoyment. It could not be better! |
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Voice |
Listen carefully. From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for if you eat from it, you will surely die. |
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Eve |
There is a strange beast. It looks like a dragon, a very crafty one at that. I wonder if it can talk. |
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Satan |
(Hiss as you talk) Indeed I can talk, young lady. |
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Eve |
Oh, my! |
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Satan |
Indeed, has God said, “You shall not eat from any tree of the garden� |
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Eve |
Ah… From any tree we may eat, except from the tree in the middle of the garden. |
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Satan
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Ha! You surely will not die! |
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Eve |
Hmm. Well, the fruit on that tree does look tasty, and it’s pleasing to the eyes. |
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Satan |
Ah, yes! Yes! |
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Eve
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Well, I’ll just eat one. |
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Adam
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(Take the fruit, look it over for a moment, look around furtively, and take a bite.) |
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Prompter & |
Shame! Shame! |
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Eve |
Oh! What will we do! I’ll sew fig leaves together and make aprons for us. |
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Adam |
Oh, no! I hear the Lord coming. Let’s hide! |
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Voice |
Adam! Adam! Where are you?†|
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Adam |
It’s no use! Lord, I heard you come and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid. |
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Voice |
Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I forbade? |
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Adam |
The woman that You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate. |
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Voice |
Eve, what is this you have done? |
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Eve |
The serpent deceived me, and I ate. |
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Voice
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Serpent, because you have done this, you are cursed. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; Eve, you will bear children with great pain, and your husband will rule over you. Adam, cursed is the ground because of you. Thorns and thistles shall grow on it, |
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Angel |
God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife. Then, he drove them out of Eden, and stationed me and my fellow angels with a flaming sword to guard the way to the tree of life. |
DISCUSS:
Paul called Jesus “the final Adam†(Rom, 5:12-21). In what way is Jesus, like Adam, the head of a race?
In what way did Jesus reverse the universal effect of Adam’s sin?
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