1 The serpent was more cunning than every animal of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Is it really so that God said, 'You must not eat from any tree of the garden'?"
2 The woman answered the serpent, "From the fruit of the garden's trees we may eat,
3 but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, 'Do not eat from it, and do not touch it, or you will die.'"
4 But the serpent said to the woman, "You will certainly not die!
5 For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will become like God, knowing good and evil."
6 The woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was a pleasure to the eyes, and that the tree was attractive for gaining insight; so she took some of its fruit and ate, and she gave some also to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
7 Then the eyes of the two of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they stitched fig leaves together and made aprons for themselves.
8 Then they heard the sound of the LORD God as he walked in the garden in the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the face of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9 And the LORD God called to the man and asked him, "Where are you?"
10 He answered, "I heard you in the garden and became afraid, since I was naked; so I hid."
11 And he said, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
12 The man said, "The woman you placed with me—she gave me from the tree, and I ate."
13 The LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate."
14 And the LORD God said to the serpent, "Since you have done this, cursed are you beyond all the cattle and beyond every animal of the field. On your belly you will go about, and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
15 Enmity I will set between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."
16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your toil and your pregnancies; in pain you will bear children. Your longing will be toward your husband, and he will rule over you."
17 And to Adam he said, "Since you heeded your wife's voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat from it,' the ground is cursed on your account; with toil you will eat from it all the days of your life.
18 It will make thorns and thistles grow for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you go back to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will go back."
20 The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all who live.
21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
22 And the LORD God said, "See, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, so that he does not stretch out his hand and take from the tree of life as well, and eat, and live forever—"
23 the LORD God sent him away from the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he had been taken.
24 He drove the man out, and east of the garden of Eden he stationed the cherubim and the flame of the whirling sword, to guard the path to the tree of life.