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Genesis 3:13 (WEB)
The LORD God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Catechism · 3

§1736Article 3 · Man's FreedomRead at vatican.va
“Thus the Lord asked Eve after the sin in the garden: "What is this that you have done?"” — Catechism footnote: Gen 3:13.

§2568Article 1 · In the Old TestamentRead at vatican.va
“What is this that you have done?"” — Catechism footnote: Gen 3:9, 13.

§400Paragraph 7 · The FallRead at vatican.va
“The harmony in which they had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of the soul's spiritual faculties over the body is shattered; the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 3:7-16.

Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies III.23Book III
““The serpent,” says she, “beguiled me, and I did eat.”” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 13.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 78
“For if an angel is able to use air, mist, cloud, fire, and any other natural substance or corporal species; and man to use face, tongue, hand, pen, letters, or any other significants, for the purpose of intimating the secret things of his own mind: in a word, if,…” — editor's note: [Judg. xiii. 20. This mysterious subject may be illustrated from Holy Scripture so as to justify our author’s very broad statement. It throws light on Gen.…
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XIV.14Book XIV
“But it is a worse and more damnable pride which casts about for the shelter of an excuse even in manifest sins, as these our first parents did, of whom the woman said, “The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat;” and the man said, “The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.”” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 12, 13.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 42
“Bring forward those that have got the better, bring forward the first woman, who said, “The serpent beguiled me,”and yet was not acquitted of the blame.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 13.
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 2
“This is why the heathen rage and the peoples imagine vain things; why tree is set over against tree, hands against hand, the one stretched out in self indulgence, the others in generosity; the one unrestrained, the others fixed by nails, the one expelling Adam, the other reconciling the ends of the earth.” — editor's note: Gen. iii. 6–23.
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