3 Now the serpenta was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?b”
2The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,c 3but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”d
4“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.e 5“For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,f knowing good and evil.”
6When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirableg for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband,h who was with her, and he ate it.i 7Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked;j so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.k
8Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walkingl in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hidm from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”n
10He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraido because I was naked;p so I hid.”
11And he said, “Who told you that you were naked?q Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?r”
12The man said, “The woman you put here with mes—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,t and I ate.”
14So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursedu are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dustv
all the days of your life.
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring*w and hers;x
and you will strike his heel.”
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with pain you will give birth to children.z
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.a”
17To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’b
“Cursedc is the groundd because of you;
through painful toile you will eat of it
all the days of your life.f
18It will produce thorns and thistlesg for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.h
19By the sweat of your browi
you will eat your foodj
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”k
20Adam* named his wife Eve,*l 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.m 22And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us,n knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of lifeo and eat, and live forever.” 23So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Edenp to work the groundq from which he had been taken. 24After he drove them out, he placed on the east side* of the Garden of Edenr cherubims and a flaming swordt flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.u