Adam and Eve Deceived
1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, 3 but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’ ”
4 The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die, 5 for God knows that on the day you eat 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 pleasant to look upon, and that it was a tree to be desired for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it too. 7 Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
God Confronts Adam and Eve
8 They heard the sound of Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God, among the trees of the garden.
9 The Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 Adam said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid myself.”
11 God 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 fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 The Lord God said to the woman, “What have you done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
Consequence of Disobedience
14 The Lord God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
you are cursed above all livestock,
and above every animal of the field.
You shall crawl on your belly,
and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
15 I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring.
He will bruise your head,
and you will bruise his heel.”
16 To the woman he said,
“I will greatly increase your pain in childbirth.
You will bear children in pain.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
17 To Adam he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten from the tree,
about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’
the ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
18 It will yield thorns and thistles to you,
and you will eat the herb of the field.
19 You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,
for you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you shall return to dust.”
20 The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of every living thing.
Banned from Paradise
21 The Lord God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife and clothed them.
22 The Lord God said, “The man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, he must not reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
23 Therefore the Lord God sent him from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 So he drove the man out, and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden and a flaming sword which rotated in all directions, to guard the way to the tree of life.