¹⁵ The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden^(A) to work it and take care of it.

¹⁷ To 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,’^(A)

²⁰ Adam^[a] named his wife Eve,^[b](K) 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.^{(L) 22} And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us,^(M) knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life^(N) and eat, and live forever.” ²³ So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden^(O) to work the ground^(P) 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^(Q) cherubim^(R) and a flaming sword^(S) flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.^(T)

Present Suffering and Future Glory

¹⁸ I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.^{(A) 19} For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God^(B) to be revealed. ²⁰ For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it,^(C) in hope ²¹ that^[a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay^(D) and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.^(E)

²² We know that the whole creation has been groaning^(F) as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. ²³ Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit,^(G) groan^(H) inwardly as we wait eagerly^(I) for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.^(J)