14 And Yahweh God said to the serpent,
“aBecause you have done this,
Cursed are you more than any of the cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you will go,
And bdust you will eat
All the days of your life;
15 And I will put aenmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
bHe shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.”
16 To the woman He said,
“I will greatly multiply
Your pain and conception,
In pain you will abear children;
Your desire will be for your husband,
And bhe will rule over you.”
17 Then 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’;
aCursed is the ground because of you;
bIn pain you will eat of it
All the days of your life.
18 Both thorns and thistles it shall agrow for you;
And you will eat the plants of the field;
19 By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you areturn to the ground,
Because bfrom it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”
20 Now the man called his wife’s name aEve, because she was the mother of all the living. 21 Then Yahweh God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
22 Then Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of aUs to know good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand and take also from bthe tree of life and eat and live forever”— 23 therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. 24 So aHe drove the man out; and at the beast of the garden of Eden He stationed the ccherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to dthe tree of life.