Genesis 3:16-24

English Standard Version

¹⁶To the woman he said,

“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;
^(A)in pain you shall bring forth children.
^(B)Your desire shall be contrary to^[a] your husband,
but he shall ^(C)rule over you.”

¹⁷And to Adam he said,

“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
    and have eaten of the tree
^(D)of which I commanded you,
    ‘You shall not eat of it,’
^(E)cursed is the ground because of you;
    ^(F)in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
¹⁸thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
    and you shall eat the plants of the field.
¹⁹By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
^(G)for you are dust,
    and ^(H)to dust you shall return.”

²⁰The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.^[b] ²¹And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

²²Then the Lord God said, ^(I)“Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand ^(J)and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” ²³therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden ^(K)to work the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the ^(L)cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.