Genesis 3:16–24

¹⁶He said to the woman:

I will intensify your labor pains;

you will bear children with painful effort.^f

Your desire^g will be for your husband,

yet he will rule over you.

¹⁷And he said to the man, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.^h

You will eat from it by means of painful labor^D

all the days of your life.

¹⁸It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

and you will eat the plants of the field.ⁱ

¹⁹You will eat bread^E by the sweat of your brow

until you return to the ground,^j

since you were taken from it.

For you are dust,

and you will return to dust.”

²⁰The man named his wife Eve^F because she was the mother of all the living. ²¹The Lord God made clothing from skins for the man and his wife, and he clothed them.

²²The Lord God said, “Since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”^{k 23}So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴He drove the man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.^l