¹⁶And he said to the woman, “I will increase your trouble in pregnancy and your pain in giving birth. In spite of this, you will still have desire for your husband, yet you will be subject to him.”

¹⁷^*And he said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce enough food for you. ¹⁸^*It will produce weeds and thorns, and you will have to eat wild plants. ¹⁹You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again.”

²⁰Adam^p named his wife Eve,^q because she was the mother of all human beings. ²¹And the Lord God made clothes out of animal skins for Adam and his wife, and he clothed them.

Adam and Eve Are Sent Out of the Garden

²²^*Then the Lord God said, “Now the man has become like one of us and has knowledge of what is good and what is bad.^r He must not be allowed to take fruit from the tree that gives life, eat it, and live for ever.” ²³So the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden and made him cultivate the soil from which he had been formed. ²⁴Then at the east side of the garden he put living creatures^s and a flaming sword which turned in all directions. This was to keep anyone from coming near the tree that gives life.

Read in Logos

Genesis 3:19: By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

Footnotes

padam: This name in Hebrew means “humanity”.
qeve: This name sounds similar to the Hebrew word for “living”, which is rendered in this context as “human beings”.
rknowledge of what is good and what is bad; or knowledge of everything.
sliving creatures: See Word List.

Cross references

*3.17, 18: Heb 6:8
*3.17, 18: Heb 6:8
*3.22: Rev 22:14