¹Now 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 ’?”

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

³but 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 .’”

⁴The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die ,

⁵for God knows that in the day you eat it , your eyes will be opened , and you will be like God, knowing good and evil .”

⁶When 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 some of its fruit , and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her , and he ate it , too .

⁷Their eyes were opened , and they both knew that they were naked . They sewed fig leaves together , and made coverings for themselves .

⁸They heard the LORD God ’s voice 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 amongst the trees of the garden .

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

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

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

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

¹³The LORD God said to the woman, “What have you done ?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me , and I ate.”

¹⁴The 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 go on your belly

and you shall eat dust all the days of your life .

¹⁵I 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 .”

¹⁶To the woman he said,

“I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth .

You will bear children in pain .

Your desire will be for your husband,

and he will rule over you .”

¹⁷To Adam he said ,

“Because you have listened to your wife ’s voice ,

and have eaten from the tree ,

about which I commanded you , saying , ‘You shall not eat of it ,’

the ground is cursed for your sake .

You will eat from it with much labour all the days of your life .

¹⁸It will yield thorns and thistles to you;

and you will eat the herb of the field .

¹⁹You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground ,

for you were taken out of it .

For you are dust ,

and you shall return to dust .”

²⁰The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living .

²¹The LORD God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them .

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

²³Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden , to till the ground from which he was taken .

²⁴So he drove out the man ; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden , and a flaming sword which turned every way , to guard the way to the tree of life .[#3:24 cherubim are powerful angelic creatures, messengers of God with wings. See Ezekiel 10.]