Sin’s Consequences

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze,[a] and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.(A) So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

10 And he said, “I heard you[b] in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”

11 Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

12 The man replied,(B) “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”

13 So the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?”

And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”(C)

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent:

Because you have done this,
you are cursed more than any livestock
and more than any wild animal.
You will move on your belly
and eat dust all the days of your life.(D)
15 I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring.[c]
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.(E)

16 He said to the woman:

I will intensify your labor pains;
you will bear children with painful effort.(F)
Your desire(G) will be for your husband,
yet he will rule over you.

17 And he said to the man, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.(H)
You will eat from it by means of painful labor[d]
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.(I)
19 You will eat bread[e] by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,(J)
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”

20 The man named his wife Eve[f] because she was the mother of all the living. 21 The Lord God made clothing from skins for the man and his wife, and he clothed them.

22 The Lord God said, “Since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”(K) 23 So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove the man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.(L)

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Footnotes

  1. 3:8 Lit at the wind of the day
  2. 3:10 Lit the sound of you
  3. 3:15 Lit your seed and her seed
  4. 3:17 Lit it through pain
  5. 3:19 Or food
  6. 3:20 Lit Living, or Life

When they heard the voice of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden during the breeze of the day, the man and his wife concealed themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. So the Lord God called out to the man, asking him, “Where are you?”

10 “I heard your voice in the garden,” the man[a] answered, “and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid from you.”[b]

11 “Who told you that you are naked?” God[c] asked. “Did you eat fruit[d] from the tree that I commanded you not to eat?”

12 The man answered, “The woman whom you provided for[e] me gave me fruit[f] from the tree, and I ate some of it.”[g]

13 Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What did you do?”[h]

“The Shining One[i] misled me,” the woman answered, “so I ate.”

The Penalty of Sin

14 The Lord God told the Shining One,[j]

“Because you have done this,
    you are more cursed than all the livestock,
        and more than all the earth’s animals,[k]
You’ll crawl on your belly
    and eat dust
        as long as you live.
15 “I’ll place hostility between you and the woman,
    between your offspring and her offspring.
He’ll strike you on the head,
    and you’ll strike him on the heel.”

16 He told the woman,

“I’ll greatly increase the pain of your labor during childbirth.
    It will be painful for you to bear children,
“since your trust is turning[l] toward your husband,
    and he will dominate you.”

17 He told the man,

“Because you have listened to what your wife said,[m]
    and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you,[n]
        ‘You are not to not eat from it,’
cursed is the ground because of you.
    You’ll eat from it through pain-filled labor
        for the rest of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
    and you’ll eat the plants from the meadows.
19 You will eat food by the sweat of your brow
    until you’re buried in[o] the ground,
        because you were taken from it.
You’re made from dust
    and you’ll return to dust.”

20 Now Adam[p] had named his wife “Eve,”[q] because she was to become the mother of everyone who was living. 21 The Lord God fashioned garments from animal skins for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

22 Later, the Lord God said, “Look! The man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, so he won’t reach out, also take from the tree of life, eat, and then live forever—” 23 therefore the Lord God expelled the man[r] from the garden of Eden so he would work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he had expelled the man, the Lord God[s] placed winged angels[t] at the eastern end of the garden of Eden, along with a fiery, turning sword, to prevent access to[u] the tree of life.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:10 Lit. he
  2. Genesis 3:10 The Heb. lacks from you
  3. Genesis 3:11 Lit. he
  4. Genesis 3:11 The Heb. lacks fruit
  5. Genesis 3:12 Or you gave
  6. Genesis 3:12 The Heb. lacks fruit
  7. Genesis 3:12 The Heb. lacks some of it
  8. Genesis 3:13 Lit. What is this you did?
  9. Genesis 3:13 Or the Diviner; the Heb. word ha-Nachash connotes one who falsely claims to reveal God’s word; or the Serpent; cf. Isa 14:12; Eze 28:13-14
  10. Genesis 3:14 Or the Diviner; the Heb. word ha-Nachash connotes one who falsely claims to reveal God’s word; or the Serpent; cf. Isa 14:12; Eze 28:13-14
  11. Genesis 3:14 I.e., non-domesticated animals, as opposed to domesticated livestock
  12. Genesis 3:16 Or Your desire is
  13. Genesis 3:17 Lit. to the voice of your wife
  14. Genesis 3:17 Lit. you when I said
  15. Genesis 3:19 Lit. you return to
  16. Genesis 3:20 Or the man
  17. Genesis 3:20 The Heb. name Hawwa (Eve) means life.
  18. Genesis 3:23 Lit. expelled him
  19. Genesis 3:24 Lit. man, he
  20. Genesis 3:24 MT reads placed cherubim
  21. Genesis 3:24 Or to watch over