¹⁷ To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’^(A)

²⁰ Adam^[a] named his wife Eve,^[b](K) because she would become the mother of all the living.

²¹ The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.^{(L) 22} And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us,^(M) knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life^(N) and eat, and live forever.” ²³ So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden^(O) to work the ground^(P) from which he had been taken. ²⁴ After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side^[c] of the Garden of Eden^(Q) cherubim^(R) and a flaming sword^(S) flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.^(T)

² down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life,^(A) bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.^(B)