Genesis 3:14-4:5

New International Version

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

“Cursed^(A) are you above all livestock
    and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
    and you will eat dust^(B)
    all the days of your life.
¹⁵And I will put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring^[a]^(C) and hers;^(D)
he will crush^[b] your head,^(E)
    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.^(F)
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.^(G)”

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,’^(H)

“Cursed^(I) is the ground^(J) because of you;
    through painful toil^(K) you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.^(L)
¹⁸It will produce thorns and thistles^(M) for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.^(N)
¹⁹By the sweat of your brow^(O)
    you will eat your food^(P)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”^(Q)

²⁰Adam^[c] named his wife Eve,^[d]^(R) 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.^(S) ²²And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us,^(T) knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life^(U) and eat, and live forever.” ²³So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden^(V) to work the ground^(W) from which he had been taken. ²⁴After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side^[e] of the Garden of Eden^(X) cherubim^(Y) and a flaming sword^(Z) flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.^(AA)

Cain and Abel

4 Adam^[f] made love to his wife^(AB) Eve,^(AC) and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.^[g]^(AD) She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth^[h] a man.” ²Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.^(AE)

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