CHAPTER 3
Now the serpent
was
more crafty
than any
beast
of the field
that
the LORD
God
had made.
And he said
to
the woman,
“Did God
really
say,
‘You must not
eat
of any
tree
in the garden?’”
but of the fruit
of the tree
in the middle
of the garden,
God
has said,
‘You must not
eat
of it
or
touch
it,
or
you will die.’”
“For
God
knows
that
in the day
you eat
of it,
your eyes
will be
opened
and you will be like God,
knowing
good
and evil.”
When the woman
saw
that
the tree
was good
for food
and
pleasing
to the eyes,
and that it was
desirable
for obtaining wisdom,
she took
the fruit
and ate it.
She also gave some
to her husband,
and he ate it.
And the eyes
of both of them
were opened,
and they
knew
that
they were naked;
so they sewed together
fig
leaves
and made
coverings
for themselves.
Then the man
and his wife
heard
the voice
of the LORD
God
walking
in the garden
in the breeze
of the day,
and they hid themselves
from the presence
of the LORD
God
among
the trees
of the garden.
“I heard
Your voice
in the garden,”
he replied,
“and I was afraid
because
I
was naked;
so I hid myself.”
“Who
told
you
that
you were naked?”
asked the LORD God.
“Have you eaten
of
the tree
from which
I commanded you
not to
eat?”
And the man
answered,
“The woman
whom
You gave
me,
she
gave
me fruit from
the tree,
and I ate it.”
Then the LORD
God
said
to the woman,
“What
is this
you have done?”
“The serpent
deceived me,”
she
replied,
“and I ate.”
So the LORD
God
said
to
the serpent:
“Because
you have done
this,
cursed
are you
above all
livestock
and every
beast
of the field!
On
your belly
will you go,
and dust
you will eat,
all
the days
of your life.
And
I will put
enmity
between you
and the woman,
and between
your seed
and her seed.
He
will crush
your head,
and you
will strike
his heel.”
To
the woman
He said:
“I will sharply
increase
your pain
in childbirth;
in pain
you will bring forth
children.
Your desire
will be for
your husband,
and he
will rule
over you.”
And to Adam
He said:
“Because
you have listened
to the voice
of
your wife
and have eaten
of the tree
from which
I commanded
you not
to eat,
cursed
is the ground
because of you;
through toil
you will eat of it
all
the days
of your life.
By the sweat
of your brow
you will eat
your bread,
until
you return
to
the ground—
because
out of it
were you taken.
For
dust
you are,
and to
dust
you shall return.”
Then the LORD
God
said,
“Behold,
the man
has become
like one
of Us,
knowing
good
and evil.
And now,
lest
he reach out
his hand
and take
also
from the tree
of life,
and eat,
and live
forever..."
Therefore the LORD
God
banished him
from the Garden
of Eden
to work
the ground
from which
he had been taken.
So He drove out
the man
and
stationed
cherubim
to the east
of the Garden
of Eden,
with
a whirling
sword
of flame
to guard
the way
to the tree
of life.