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the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden; 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat the fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die’.”
4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die; 5 for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and that it was also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some of its fruit and ate it. Then she also gave some of the fruit to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 And the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 So he answered, “I heard You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me—she gave me some of the fruit from the tree, and I ate.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“You are cursed more than any of the livestock,
and more than any of the wild animals!
You will slither about on your belly,
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed;
he will crush your head,
and you will strike His heel.”
16 To the woman He said,
“I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing;
in pain you will bring forth children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
17 Then to Adam He said,
“Because you listened to your wife’s voice,
and ate from the tree
about which I commanded you,
‘You must not eat of it’:
Cursed is the ground because of you;
in painful toil you will eat of it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 You will eat your food
by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and to dust you will return.”
20 Adam named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living. 21 The Lord God made garments out of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
22 And the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. He must not reach out his hand, and also take from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God sent him away from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man; and on the east side of the Garden of Eden He placed cherubim and a flaming sword that flashed in every direction, to guard the way to the tree of life.