Genesis 3

1The serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that Yahweh God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

2And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat from the fruit of the trees of the garden,”

3But from the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You shall not eat from it, and you shall not touch it, lest you die.’

4But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.”

5For God knows that on the day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

6So the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise. So she took from its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate.

7Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

8And they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

9Then Yahweh God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

10And he said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid myself.”

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

12And the man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me—she gave me from the tree, and I ate.”

13Then Yahweh God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

14Then Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above every beast of the field. On your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.”

15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he will crush your head, and you will bruise his heel.

16To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain and your conception; in pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

17And to Adam he said, “Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in painful toil you shall eat from it all the days of your life.”

18It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

19By the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.

20And the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

21And Yahweh God made garments of skin for the man and for his wife, and clothed them.

22Then Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and also take from the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”

23So Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

24So he drove out the man, and to the east of the garden of Eden he stationed the cherubim and the flame of the sword that turns every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.