Genesis 3:14–21

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.”

²⁰Adam named his wife Eve ^mbecause she was the mother of all the living. ²¹The Lord God made clothing out of skins for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.