Now 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? And the woman said to the serpent,
We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden. But 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. But the serpent said to the woman,
You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat
of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing
good and evil. So 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. Then the eyes of both were opened,
and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves
together, and made themselves loincloths. And 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. But
the Lord God called to the man and said to him, Where are you? And he said, I heard the sound
of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked,
and I hid myself. He said, Who told you that you
were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of
which I commanded you not to eat? The man said, The woman
whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree,
and I ate. Then the Lord God said to the
woman, What is this that you have done? The woman said, The
serpent deceived me, and I ate. The 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. I 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. To the woman he said, I will
surely multiply your pain and childbearing. In pain you shall
bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your
husband, and he shall rule over you. And 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. Thorns and thistles it shall
bring forth for you, And you shall eat the plants of the field,
By 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." The man called his wife's name
Eve, because she was the mother of all living. And the Lord God
made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed
them. Then 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, Therefore the Lord God sent him
out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he
was taken. He 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. you