Genesis 3:16–24

¹⁶To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;

with painful labor you will give birth to children.^d

Your desire will be for your husband,

and he will rule over you.^e”

¹⁷To 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

“Cursed^g is the ground^h because of you;

through painful toilⁱ you will eat food from it

all the days of your life.^j

¹⁸It will produce thorns and thistles^k for you,

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

¹⁹By the sweat of your brow^m

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

²⁰Adam^c named his wife Eve,^dp because she would become the mother of all the living.

²¹The 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 life^s and eat, and live forever.” ²³So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden^t to work the ground^u from which he had been taken. ²⁴After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side^e of the Garden of Eden^v cherubim^w and a flaming sword^x flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.^y