Genesis 3

Now the serpent was more crafty than every living thing of the field that God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

Then the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat from the fruit of the tree{s} of the garden,

except from the fruit of the tree that {is} in the middle of the garden. God said, ‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die!’” \*

But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.

For God knows that on the day you eat from it, then your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God in knowing good and evil.”

And the woman saw that the tree {was} good for food, and that it {was} pleasant to the eyes, and {that} the tree was desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate {it}. Then she also gave {some} to her husband with her, and he ate {it}. \*

Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they {were} naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made aprons for themselves.

Then they heard the sound of God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, but the man and his wife hid from the presence of God among the tree{s} of the garden. \*

So God called to the man and said to him, “Where {are} you?”

And he said, “I heard your sound in the garden, but I was afraid because I {was} naked, so I hid.”

Then he said, “Who told you that you {were} naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” \*

Then the man said, “The woman whom you gave {to be} with me, she gave me {fruit} from the tree, and I ate {it}.”

Then God said to the woman, “What {is} this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, so I ate {it}.” \*

Then God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all the livestock and above every living thing of the field. You will move on your belly, and you will eat dust all the days of your life. 15 I will also put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike you {on} the head, and you will strike him {on} the heel.” \*

To the woman he said, “To multiply I will multiply your pain and your childbearing; in pain you will bear children. Yet your desire {will be} for your husband, and he will rule over you.” \*

Then to the man he said, “Since you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree that I commanded you, saying, ‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you. By painful toil you will eat {from} it all the days of your life. 18 And it will produce thorn{s} and thistle{s} for you, and you will eat the plant{s} of the field{s}. 19 By the sweat of your nose you will eat bread, until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken. For you {are} dust, and to dust you will return.” \*

Then the man called the name of his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

Then God made garments of {animal} skins for Adam and his wife, and he clothed them. \*

Then God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. And now he must not reach out his hand and also take {fruit} from the tree of life and eat it and live forever!”

So God sent him out of the Garden of Eden to work the ground which he had been taken from.

And after he drove the man out, then he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim {angels} and a flaming sword that was turning in every direction to guard the way of the tree of life. \*