Genesis 3:16–24

¹⁶To the woman He said,

“I will greatly multiply

Your pain ¹in childbirth,

In pain you will ^abring forth children;

Yet your desire will be for your husband,

And ^bhe will rule over you.”

¹⁷Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;

^aCursed is the ground because of you;

^bIn ¹toil you will eat of it

All the days of your life.

¹⁸“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;

And you will eat the ¹plants of the field;

¹⁹By the sweat of your face

You will eat bread,

Till you ^areturn to the ground,

Because ^bfrom it you were taken;

For you are dust,

And to dust you shall return.”

²⁰Now the man called his wife’s name ^1aEve, because she was the mother of all the living.

²¹The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

²²Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of ^aUs, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from ^bthe tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—

²³therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.

²⁴So ^aHe drove the man out; and at the ^beast of the garden of Eden He stationed the ^ccherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to ^dthe tree of life.