The Bible

Genesis Chapter 3

¹Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You mustn't eat from any tree of the garden'?"

²The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, ³but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God said, 'Don't eat of it or touch it, otherwise you'll die.'"

⁴The serpent said to the woman, "You won't really die, ⁵for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

⁶When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit. She ate and gave some to her husband with her; and he ate it, too. ⁷Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves. ⁸They heard Yahweh God's voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from Yahweh God's presence among the trees of the garden.

⁹Yahweh God called to Adam, and said to him, "Where are you?"

¹⁰Adam said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself."

¹¹He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

¹²Adam said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."

¹³Yahweh God said to the woman, "What's this that you've done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

¹⁴Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you'll go, and eat dust all the days of your life. ¹⁵I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."

¹⁶To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

¹⁷To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten from the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'Don't eat from it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. ¹⁸It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the plants of the field. ¹⁹You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for from it you were taken. For you are dust, and you'll return to dust."

²⁰Adam called his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all living. ²¹Yahweh God made garments of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

²²Yahweh God said, "See, Adam has become one of those who know good and evil. Now, [we must act] in case he reaches out his hand, and takes from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever." ²³So Yahweh God sent him out of the garden of Eden, to work the ground that he'd been taken from. ²⁴So he drove out Adam. He placed throne-angels at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned in all directions, to guard the way to the tree of life.