Genesis 3:8-21

New International Version

⁸Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking^(A) in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid^(B) from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. ⁹But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”^(C)

¹⁰He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid^(D) because I was naked;^(E) so I hid.”

¹¹And he said, “Who told you that you were naked?^(F) Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?^(G)”

¹²The man said, “The woman you put here with me^(H)—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

¹³Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me,^(I) and I ate.”

¹⁴So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,

“Cursed^(J) are you above all livestock
    and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
    and you will eat dust^(K)
    all the days of your life.
¹⁵And I will put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring^[a]^(L) and hers;^(M)
he will crush^[b] your head,^(N)
    and you will strike his heel.”

¹⁶To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.^(O)
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.^(P)”

¹⁷To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’^(Q)

“Cursed^(R) is the ground^(S) because of you;
    through painful toil^(T) you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.^(U)
¹⁸It will produce thorns and thistles^(V) for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.^(W)
¹⁹By the sweat of your brow^(X)
    you will eat your food^(Y)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”^(Z)

²⁰Adam^[c] named his wife Eve,^[d]^(AA) because she would become the mother of all the living.

²¹The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.^(AB)

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Footnotes

Genesis 3:15 Or seed
Genesis 3:15 Or strike
Genesis 3:20 Or The man
Genesis 3:20 Eve probably means living.

Genesis 4:1-7

New International Version

Cain and Abel

4 Adam^[a] made love to his wife^(A) Eve,^(B) and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.^[b]^(C) She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth^[c] a man.” ²Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.^(D)

Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.^(E) ³In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering^(F) to the Lord.^(G) ⁴And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions^(H) from some of the firstborn of his flock.^(I) The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,^(J) ⁵but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.

⁶Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry?^(K) Why is your face downcast? ⁷If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door;^(L) it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.^(M)”