1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animaals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, You must not eat from any tree in the garden?"
2 The woman saod to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
3 but God did say, You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or will die."
4 You will not cerainly die, the serpent said to the woman.
5 "For Godknows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened. amd you will be like God, knowing good and evi."
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaing wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
7 Then the eyes of both of them were openedm and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the daym and they hid from the LORD God among the thees of the garden.
9 But the LORD God called to man,"Where are you?"
10 He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked soI hid"
11 And he said "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to cat from?"
12 The man said, "The woman you pur here with me she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, " What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent decived me, and I ate."
14 So the LOED God said to the serpene, "Because you have done this, Cused are yoiu above all livestock and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the deys of your life.
15 And I will put enmiry between you and the woman, and between your offsprng and hers; he will crush vour head, and you will strike his heel."
16 To the woman he said, " I will make your pains in chi;dbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will for your husband, and he will rule over you."
17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, You must not eat from it, Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thoms and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken;for dust you are and to dust you will retu.."
20 Adam named his wife Eve,because she would become the mother of all the livng.
21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
22 And the LORD God said "Theman has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree life and eat, and live forever."
23 So the LORD God banished him from Garden of Edes to work the ground from which he had been taken.
24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Gard of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to tree of life.