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1 Now
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’?”
2 The woman said
to the serpent, “We
may eat fruit from
the trees of
the garden,
3 but
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.’ ”
4 The
serpent said to
the woman, “You won’t really
die,
5 for God
knows that in
the day you eat
it, your eyes
will be opened,
and you will
be like God,
knowing good and
evil.”
6 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 some of
its fruit, and ate.
Then she gave some
to her husband
with her, and
he ate it, too.
7 Their
eyes were opened,
and they both
knew that they
were naked. They
sewed fig leaves
together, and made
coverings for
themselves.
8 They
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 among the
trees of the
garden.
9 The
LORD God called
to the man, and
said to him, “Where
are you?”
10 The man
said, “I heard
your voice in
the garden, and
I was afraid,
because I was
naked; so I
hid myself.”
11 God said,
“Who told you
that you were
naked? Have
you eaten from the
tree that I
commanded you not
to eat from?”
12 The man
said, “The woman whom you
gave to be
with me, she
gave me fruit
from the tree,
and I ate it.”
13 The
LORD God said to
the woman, “What
have you done?”
The woman said, “The
serpent deceived
me, and I ate.”
14 The
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.
15 I 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.”
16 To
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.”
17 To 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 labor
all the days
of your life.
18 It
will yield thorns
and thistles
to you;
and you will eat
the herb of
the field.
19 You
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.”
20 The
man called his
wife Eve because
she would be
the mother of all
the living.
21 The
LORD God made
garments of animal
skins for Adam and
for his wife, and
clothed them.
22 The
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—”
23 Therefore
the LORD God
sent him out
from the garden
of Eden, to
till the ground
from which he
was taken.
24 So 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.