1 Now the snake was more devious than any wild animal which Yehovah, God, had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘Don’t eat from any tree of the garden’?”
2 And the woman said to the snake, “We may eat the fruit from the trees of the garden, 3 but of the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘Don’t eat of it and don’t touch it, so you will not die.’”
4 And the snake said to the woman, “Die? You won’t die! 5 Indeed God knows that on the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”*
6 And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to give one insight. She took from its fruit and ate, and she also gave to her husband beside her, and he ate. 7 And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves and made loincloths for themselves.
8 Now they heard the sound of Yehovah, God, walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the face of Yehovah, God, among the trees of the garden.
9 And Yehovah, God, called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 And the man said, “I heard your sound in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 And the man said, “The woman whom you gave to be beside me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 And Yehovah, God, said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
And the woman said, “The snake tricked me, and I ate.”
14 And Yehovah, God, said to the snake,
“Because you have done this,
you are cursed more than every large animal,
and more than every wild animal.
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dirt all the days of your life.
15 And I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring.
He will bruise your head,
and you will bruise His heel.”
16 To the woman He said,
“I will greatly increase your pain in pregnancy.
In pain you will give birth to children.
And your desire will be toward your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
17 And to Adam He said,
“Because you have listened to your wife’s voice,
and ate from the tree,
about which I commanded you, saying, ‘Don’t eat from it,’
the ground is cursed for your sake.
You will eat from it with painful labor all the days of your life.
18 And it will produce thorns and thistles for you;
and you will eat cultivated plants.
19 By the sweat of your face will you eat food until you return to the ground,
because from it you were taken.
For you are dirt,
and to dirt you will return.”
20 And the man named his wife Eve (which means Life) because she would be the mother of all the living.
21 Now Yehovah, God, made leather robes for Adam and for his wife, and dressed them.
22 And Yehovah, God, said, “Look, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, so he won’t reach out his hand, and also take from the tree of life, and eat, and live to a distant age…!” 23 And Yehovah, God, sent him out from the garden of Eden, to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 And He drove out the man; and He had cherubs stay at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way of the tree of life.