1Now the serpent was more crafty than any animal of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You must not eat from every tree of the garden'?"
2The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden."
3"But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You must not eat it, and you must not touch it, or you will die.'"
4The serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die."
5"For God knows that on the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil."
6The woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
7Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8They heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9The LORD God called to Adam and said to him, "Where are you?"
10He said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked. So I hid myself."
11He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
12The man said, "The woman you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate."
13The LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
14The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you will go, and you will eat dust all the days of your life."
15"I will put hatred between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. It shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."
16To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your sorrow and your childbearing. In sorrow you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
17And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree that I commanded you about, saying, 'You must not eat from it,' the ground is cursed because of you. In sorrow you will eat from it all the days of your life."
18It will bring forth thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19"By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, until you return to the ground. For out of it you were taken. You are dust, and to dust you will return."
21The LORD God also made coats of skins for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
22The LORD God said, "Look, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. And now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever."
23So the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to work the ground from which he was taken.
24So he drove the man out. And at the east of the garden of Eden he placed Cherubims, and a flaming sword that turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.