Chapter 3
1Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that AO Elohiym had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden
3but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it [or] touch it [or] you will die.’”
4“You will not surely die,” the serpent told [her].
5“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6When the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food and pleasing to the eyes [and that it was] desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave [some] to her husband [who was] with her and he ate it.
7And the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that they [were] naked so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
8Then the man and his wife heard the voice of AO Elohiym walking in the garden in the breeze of the day and they hid themselves from the presence of AO Elohiym among the trees of the garden.
9But AO Elohiym called out to the man, “Where [are] you?”
10“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I [was] naked so I hid myself.”
11“Who told you that you [were] naked?” asked [AO Elohiym]. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
12And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me [fruit] from the tree and I ate it.”
13Then AO Elohiym said to the woman, “What [is] this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” [she] replied, “and I ate.”
14So AO Elohiym said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly {will} you go and dust you {will} eat all the days of your life.
15And I will put enmity between [you] and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He {will} crush your head and you {will} strike his heel.”
16To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain 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 of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed [is] the ground because of you; through toil you will eat [of] it all the days of your life.
18Both thorns and thistles it {will} yield for you and you {will} eat the plants of the field.
19By the sweat of your brow you will eat [your] bread until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you [are] and to dust you {shall} return.”
20And Adam named his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.
21And AO Elohiym made for Adam and his wife garments of skin and He clothed them.
22Then AO Elohiym said, “Behold the man has become like one of Us knowing good and evil. And now lest he reach out and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever . . .”
23Then AO Elohiym banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
24So He drove out the man and stationed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.