Genesis 3:6

And when the woman The woman's attention has been drawn to the tree. She finds that the serpent's suggestion, based on the mysterious properties of the fruit and on the supposition of Jehovah's jealousy and unkindness, is reinforced by the attractive appearance of the fruit. Probably good to taste, evidently fair to look on, and alleged to contain the secret of wisdom, the sight of the fruit stimulates desire, and this being no longer resisted by a loyal love of God obtains the mastery; cf. James 1:14-15, "Each man is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death."

to be desired to make one wise or rather, "to be desired, in order to be wise." The same word in the Hebrew as in Psalms 2:10, "now therefore be wise, O ye kings." The R.V. marg., "desirable to look upon," gives a rendering of the Hebrew word which is not supported by its use elsewhere in the Bible, though found with this sense in late Hebrew, and in this verse supported by the versions, LXX ὡραῖον τοῦ κατανοῆσαι, Vulg. aspectu delectabile, and the Syriac Peshitto.

and she gave also The story is so condensed that we are left in ignorance, whether the man yielded as easily to the woman as she had to the serpent. The fact that the woman "fell" first, before the man, was presumably a point upon which stress was laid in the Rabbinic teaching, to which St Paul alludes in 1 Timothy 2:14, "and Adam was not beguiled, but the woman being beguiled hath fallen into transgression."