So the Lord God said to the serpent: Because you have done this, you are cursed more than any livestock and more than any wild animal. You will move on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.

And he said to the man, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’: The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labor all the days of your life.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust.”

The man named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.

The Lord God made clothing from skins for the man and his wife, and he clothed them.

The Lord God said, “Since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”

He drove the man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.

Cain Murders Abel

The man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have had a male child with the Lord’s help.”

but he did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he looked despondent.

If you do what is right, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”

Then the Lord replied to him, “In that case, whoever kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” And he placed a mark on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him.

Then Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Lamech said to his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, pay attention to my words. For I killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.

The Line of Seth

This is the document containing the family records of Adam. On the day that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God;

he created them male and female. When they were created, he blessed them and called them mankind.

Adam lived 800 years after he fathered Seth, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Seth lived 807 years after he fathered Enosh, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Enosh lived 815 years after he fathered Kenan, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Kenan lived 840 years after he fathered Mahalalel, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Mahalalel lived 830 years after he fathered Jared, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Jared lived 800 years after he fathered Enoch, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Enoch walked with God; then he was not there because God took him.

Methuselah lived 782 years after he fathered Lamech, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Lamech lived 595 years after he fathered Noah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Sons of God and Daughters of Mankind

When mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them,