¹⁷ Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;

²⁰ Now the man called his wife’s name ^[d](F)Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. ²¹ Then Yahweh God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.

²² Then Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of ^(G)Us ^[e]to know good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand and take also from ^(H)the tree of life and eat and live forever”— ²³ therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to ^[f]cultivate the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴ So ^(I)He drove the man out; and at the ^(J)east of the garden of Eden He stationed the ^(K)cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to ^[g]guard the way to ^(L)the tree of life.

²² “And the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and ^(A)the foreigner who comes from a distant land, shall see the plagues of the land and the diseases with which Yahweh has ^[a]afflicted it, and they will say, ²³ ‘All its land is ^(B)brimstone and salt, ^(C)a burning waste, ^[b]unsown and nothing sprouting, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of ^(D)Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’ ²⁴ And all the nations will say, ‘^(E)Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? Why this great burning anger?’ ²⁵ Then men will say, ‘^(F)Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which He cut with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. ²⁶ And they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not apportioned to them. ²⁷ Therefore, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against that land, ^(G)to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book; ²⁸ and ^(H)Yahweh uprooted them from their land in anger and in fury and in great wrath, and He cast them into another land, as it is this day.’

²⁹ “^(I)The secret things belong to Yahweh our God, but ^(J)the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may do all the words of this law.