Genesis 3

¹Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made . He said to the woman , Did God actually say , You shall not eat of any tree in the garden ?

²And the woman said to the serpent , We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden ,

³but God said , You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden , neither shall you touch it, lest you die .

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

⁵For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened , and you will be like God , knowing good and evil .

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

⁷Then the eyes of both were opened , and they knew that they were naked . And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths .

⁸And they heard the sound of the 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 .

⁹But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, Where are you?

¹⁰And he said , I heard the sound of you in the garden , and I was afraid , because I was naked , and I hid myself.

¹¹He said , Who told you that you were naked ? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat ?

¹²The man said , The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree , and I ate .

¹³Then the Lord God said to the woman , What is this that you have done ? The woman said , The serpent deceived me, and I ate .

¹⁴The Lord God said to the serpent , Because you have done this , cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field ; on your belly you shall go , and dust you shall eat all the days of your life .

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

¹⁶To the woman he said , I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing ; in pain you shall bring forth children . Your desire shall be for your husband , and he shall rule over you.

¹⁷And to Adam he said , Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, You shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life ;

¹⁸thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field .

¹⁹By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread , till you return to the ground , for out of it you were taken ; for you are dust , and to dust you shall return .

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

²¹And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them .

²²Then the Lord God said , Behold , the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil . Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat , and live forever —

²³therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken .

²⁴He drove out the man , and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life .