3:1 Now¹ the serpent² was more shrewd³ than any of the animals of the field which the LORD God had made. He said⁴ to the woman, “Is it indeed true that⁵ God⁶ said, ‘You must not eat from every tree of the garden’?” 3:2 And the woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;⁷ 3:3 but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden God said, ‘You must not eat from it, nor must you touch it,⁸ lest you die’.”⁹ 3:4 The serpent said¹⁰ to the woman, “You will not surely die,¹¹ 3:5 for God knows¹² that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened¹³ and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”¹⁴

3:6 When¹⁵ the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant¹⁶ to the eye, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise,¹⁷ she took some of its fruit and ate;¹⁸ and she also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate.¹⁹ 3:7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

3:8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God moving about²⁰ in the garden at the breezy time²¹ of the day, and they hid²² from the LORD God in the midst of the trees of the garden. 3:9 But the LORD God called to²³ the man and said to him, “Where are you?”²⁴ 3:10 And he said, “I heard your sound in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.” 3:11 And the LORD God²⁵ said, “Who told you that you were naked?²⁶ Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”²⁷ 3:12 The man said,²⁸ “The woman whom you gave to me—she gave²⁹ to me from the tree and I ate!” 3:13 So the LORD God said³⁰ to the woman, “What is this³¹ you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent³² beguiled me, and I ate.”

3:14 The LORD God said to the serpent,³³
“Because you have done this,
Cursed³⁴ are you above³⁵ all the wild beasts
and all the living creatures of the field!
On your belly you will crawl³⁶
and dust you will eat³⁷ all the days of your life.
3:15 And I will put enmity³⁸ between you and the woman
and between your seed and her seed;³⁹
he will bruise⁴⁰ you in the head,⁴¹
but you will bruise him in the heel.”⁴²
3:16 To the woman he said,
“I will greatly multiply⁴³ your pain⁴⁴ in your conception;⁴⁵
with pain you will give birth to children.
Your desire⁴⁶ will be⁴⁷ to your husband,
but he will have the mastery⁴⁸ over you.”
3:17 But to Adam⁴⁹ he said,
“Because you obeyed⁵⁰ your wife
and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,
saying, ‘You must not eat from it,’
cursed is the ground⁵¹ thanks to you;⁵²
in painful toil you will eat⁵³ of it all the days of your life.
3:18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
but you will eat the grain of the field;
3:19 By the sweat of your brow⁵⁴ you will eat food⁵⁵
until you return to the ground,⁵⁶
for from it your were taken;
for dust you are, and to dust you will return.”⁵⁷
3:20 The man named his wife Eve,⁵⁸
because⁵⁹ she was the mother of all the living.⁶⁰

3:21 The LORD God made⁶¹ garments from skin⁶² for Adam and his wife, and he clothed them. 3:22 And the LORD God said, “Now⁶³ that the man has become like one of us, knowing⁶⁴ good and evil, he must not be allowed⁶⁵ to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever.” 3:23 So the LORD God expelled him⁶⁶ from the garden in Eden, to work the ground from which he had been taken. 3:24 When he drove⁶⁷ the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the garden in Eden the Cherubim⁶⁸ with a flame of the sword flashing this way and that,⁶⁹ to guard the way to the tree of life.