17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’f

“Cursedg is the groundh because of you;

through painful toili you will eat food from it

all the days of your life.j

18 It will produce thorns and thistlesk for you,

and you will eat the plants of the field.l

19 By the sweat of your browm

you will eat your foodn

until you return to the ground,

since from it you were taken;

for dust you are

and to dust you will return.”o

20 Adamc named his wife Eve,d p because she would become the mother of all the living.

21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.q 22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us,r knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of lifes and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Edent to work the groundu from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east sidee of the Garden of Edenv cherubimw and a flaming swordx flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.y