Genesis 3:8–24

⁸Then^f they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden at the windy time of day.^g And the man^h and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. ⁹And Yahweh God called to the manⁱ and said to him, “Where are you?” ¹⁰And he replied,^j “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I am naked, so I hid myself.” ¹¹Then he^k asked,^l “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I forbade you to eat?”^{m 12}And the manⁿ replied,^o “The woman whom you gave to be with me—she gave to me from the tree and I ate.” ¹³Then^p Yahweh God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” ¹⁴Then^q Yahweh God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this,

you will be cursed

more than any domesticated animal

and more than any wild animal.^r

On your belly you shall go

and dust you shall eat

all the days of your life.

¹⁵And I will put hostility

between you and between the woman,

and between your offspring^s and between her offspring;^t

he will strike you on the head,

and you will strike him on the heel.”

¹⁶To the woman he said,

“I will greatly increase

your pain in childbearing;^u

in pain you shall bear children.

And to your husband shall be your desire.

And he shall rule over you.”

¹⁷And to Adam^v he said, “Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree from which I forbade you to eat,^w

the ground shall be cursed on your account.

In pain you shall eat from it

all the days of your life.

¹⁸And thorns and thistles shall sprout for you,

and you shall eat the plants of the field.

¹⁹By the sweat of your brow^x

you shall eat bread,

until your return to the ground.

For from it you were taken;

for you are dust,

and to dust you shall return.”

²⁰And the man^y named^z his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all life. ²¹And Yahweh God made for Adam^a and for his wife garments of skin, and he clothed them.

²²And Yahweh God said, “Look—the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. What if^b he stretches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life and eats, and lives forever?” ²³And Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴So^c he drove the man out, and placed cherubim east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming, turning sword^d to guard the way to the tree of life.