Genesis 3:16–24

¹⁶To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

¹⁷And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life.

¹⁸Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth.

¹⁹In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

²⁰And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.

²¹And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.

²²And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.

²³And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.

²⁴And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.