Genesis 3:12-24
English Standard Version
12 The man said, (A)“The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, (B)“The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 The Lord God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
cursed are you above all livestock
and above all beasts of the field;
on your belly you shall go,
and (C)dust you shall eat
all the days of your life.
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring[a] and (D)her offspring;
(E)he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.”
16 To the woman he said,
“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;
(F)in pain you shall bring forth children.
(G)Your desire shall be contrary to[b] your husband,
but he shall (H)rule over you.”
17 And to Adam he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
(I)of which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
(J)cursed is the ground because of you;
(K)in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
and you shall eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
(L)for you are dust,
and (M)to dust you shall return.”
20 The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.[c] 21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
22 Then the Lord God said, (N)“Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand (O)and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden (P)to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the (Q)cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Genesis 3:15 Hebrew seed; so throughout Genesis
- Genesis 3:16 Or shall be toward (see 4:7)
- Genesis 3:20 Eve sounds like the Hebrew for life-giver and resembles the word for living
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