²¹ The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.^(A)

¹⁰ The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.^{(A) 11} Now you are under a curse^(B) and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. ¹² When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you.^(C) You will be a restless wanderer^(D) on the earth.^(E)”

²⁰ For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it,^(A) in hope ²¹ that^[a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay^(B) and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.^(C)

²² We know that the whole creation has been groaning^(D) 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,^(E) groan^(F) inwardly as we wait eagerly^(G) for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.^(H)