Genesis 3:9-24

New American Standard Bible

⁹Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “^(A)Where are you?” ¹⁰He said, “^(B)I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.” ¹¹And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?” ¹²^(C)The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me some of the fruit of the tree, and I ate.” ¹³Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” And the woman said, “^(D)The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” ¹⁴Then the Lord God said to the serpent,

“^(E)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 ^(F)dust you shall eat
All the days of your life;
¹⁵And I will ^[a]^(G)make enemies
Of you and the woman,
And of your ^[b]offspring and her ^[c]Descendant;
^(H)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 ^(I)deliver children;
Yet your desire will be for your husband,
And ^(J)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’;

^(K)Cursed is the ground because of you;
^(L)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 ^(M)return to the ground,
Because ^(N)from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”

²⁰Now the man named his wife ^[h]^(O)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 ^(P)Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out with his hand, and take fruit also from ^(Q)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 ^(R)He drove the man out; and at the ^(S)east of the Garden of Eden He stationed the ^(T)cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to ^(U)the tree of life.