18 It will produce thorns and thistles(A) for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.(B)
19 By the sweat of your brow(C)
    you will eat your food(D)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”(E)

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

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:20 Or The man
  2. Genesis 3:20 Eve probably means living.
  3. Genesis 3:24 Or placed in front

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