Genesis 3:8–24

⁸Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking^p in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid^q from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. ⁹But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”^r

¹⁰He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid^s because I was naked;^t so I hid.”

¹¹And he said, “Who told you that you were naked?^u Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?^v”

¹²The man said, “The woman you put here with me^w—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

¹³Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me,^x and I ate.”

¹⁴So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,

“Cursed^y are you above all livestock

and all wild animals!

You will crawl on your belly

and you will eat dust^z

all the days of your life.

¹⁵And I will put enmity

between you and the woman,

and between your offspring^aa and hers;^b

he will crush^b your head,^c

and you will strike his heel.”

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