²⁰ Adam^[a] named his wife Eve,^[b](A) because she would become the mother of all the living.

²¹ The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.^{(B) 22} And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us,^(C) knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life^(D) and eat, and live forever.” ²³ So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden^(E) to work the ground^(F) from which he had been taken. ²⁴ After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side^[c] of the Garden of Eden^(G) cherubim^(H) and a flaming sword^(I) flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.^(J)