Genesis 3:8–24

⁸In the cool of the evening, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking around in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees in the garden. ⁹The Lord God called to the man and asked him, “Where are you?” 

¹⁰He answered, “I heard you in the garden. I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” 

¹¹God asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat fruit from the tree I commanded you not to eat from?” 

¹²The man answered, “That woman, the one you gave me, gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” 

¹³Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?” 

“The snake deceived me, and I ate,” the woman answered. 

¹⁴So the Lord God said to the snake, “Because you have done this, 

You are cursed more than all the wild or domestic animals. 

You will crawl on your belly. 

You will be the lowest of animals as long as you live. 

¹⁵I will make you and the woman hostile toward each other. 

I will make your descendants 

and her descendant hostile toward each other. 

He will crush your head, 

and you will bruise his heel.” 

¹⁶He said to the woman, 

“I will increase your pain and your labor 

when you give birth to children. 

Yet, you will long for your husband, 

and he will rule you.” 

¹⁷Then he said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree, although I commanded you, ‘You must never eat its fruit.’ 

The ground is cursed because of you. 

Through hard work you will eat ⸤food that comes⸥ from it 

every day of your life. 

¹⁸The ground will grow thorns and thistles for you, 

and you will eat wild plants. 

¹⁹By the sweat of your brow, you will produce food to eat 

until you return to the ground, 

because you were taken from it. 

You are dust, and you will return to dust.” 

²⁰Adam named his wife Eve ^[Life^[ because she became the mother of every living person. 

²¹The Lord God made clothes from animal skins for the man and his wife and dressed them. 

²²Then the Lord God said, “The man has become like one of us, since he knows good and evil. He must not reach out and take the fruit from the tree of life and eat. Then he would live forever.” ²³So the Lord God sent the man out of the Garden of Eden to farm the ground from which the man had been formed. ²⁴After he sent the man out, God placed angels^aand a flaming sword that turned in all directions east of the Garden of Eden. He placed them there to guard the way to the tree of life.