1Now the serpent was craftier than any of the wild animals Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Is it really true that God said, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
3but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it, or you will die.’ ”
4The serpent said to the woman, “You will not certainly die.
5God knows that when you eat from that tree, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eye, and desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
7Then their eyes were opened, and they both realized they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together to make coverings for themselves.
8They heard Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
9Yahweh God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10The man answered, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
11God asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree I commanded you not to eat from?”
12The man replied, “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”
14Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock and all wild animals. You will crawl on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.
15I will create hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”
16To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pain in childbirth. You will have children with pain. You will desire your husband, and he will rule over you.”
17To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you. You will work hard to get food from it all the days of your life.
18It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19By the sweat of your face you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
20The man named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all living people.
21Yahweh God made clothes of animal skins for Adam and his wife and dressed them.
22Yahweh God said, “Look, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and also take from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
23So Yahweh God sent him out of the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
24After he drove the man out, he placed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, and a flaming sword flashing back and forth, to guard the way to the tree of life.