Genesis 3:1–19

The Temptation and the Fall

3Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?” ^s

²The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden. ³But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’ ” ^t

⁴“No! You will not die,” the serpent said to the woman. ^u5“In fact, God knows that when ^vyou eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, ^wknowing good and evil.” ⁶Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. ^x7Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.

Sin’s Consequences

⁸Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, ^yand they hid themselves from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. ^z9So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

¹⁰And he said, “I heard You ^ain the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”

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

¹²Then the man replied, ^b“The woman You gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”

¹³So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”

And the woman said, “It was the serpent. He deceived me, and I ate.” ^c

¹⁴Then the Lord God said to the serpent:

Because you have done this,

you are cursed more than any livestock

and more than any wild animal.

You will move on your belly

and eat dust all the days of your life. ^d

¹⁵I will put hostility between you and the woman,

and between your seed and her seed.

He will strike your head,

and you will strike his heel. ^e

¹⁶He said to the woman:

I will intensify your labor pains;

you will bear children in anguish. ^f

Your desire ^gwill be for your husband,

yet he will rule over you.

¹⁷And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice 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 ⁱ

all the days of your life.

¹⁸It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

and you will eat the plants of the field. ^j

¹⁹You will eat bread ^kby the sweat of your brow

until you return to the ground, ^l

since you were taken from it.

For you are dust,

and you will return to dust.”