Genesis 3:14-24

New American Standard Bible

¹⁴Then the Lord God said to the serpent,

“^(A)Because you have done this,
Cursed are you more than all the livestock,
And more than any animal of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And ^(B)dust you shall eat
All the days of your life;
¹⁵And I will ^[a]^(C)make enemies
Of you and the woman,
And of your ^[b]offspring and her ^[c]Descendant;
^(D)He shall ^[d]bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise Him on the heel.”

¹⁶To the woman He said,

“I will greatly multiply
Your pain ^[e]in childbirth,
In pain you shall ^(E)deliver children;
Yet your desire will be for your husband,
And ^(F)he shall rule over you.”

¹⁷Then 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’;

^(G)Cursed is the ground because of you;
^(H)With ^[f]hard labor you shall eat from it
All the days of your life.
¹⁸Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
Yet you shall eat the ^[g]plants of the field;
¹⁹By the sweat of your face
You shall eat bread,
Until you ^(I)return to the ground,
Because ^(J)from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”

²⁰Now the man named his wife ^[h]^(K)Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. ²¹And the Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

²²Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of ^(L)Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out with his hand, and take fruit also from ^(M)the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— ²³therefore the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴So ^(N)He drove the man out; and at the ^(O)east of the Garden of Eden He stationed the ^(P)cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to ^(Q)the tree of life.