17. And 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 of it,’ Cursed is the ground on account of you;in hard labor you will eat of itall the days of your life.
18. Thorns and thistles it will bring forth for you,and you will eat the plants of the field.
19. By the sweat of your faceyou will eat breaduntil you return to the ground,because out of it you were taken;for you are dust,and to dust you will return.”
20. The man called his wife’s name Eve because she was the mother of all the living.
21. The Lord God made garments of skins for both Adam and his wife and clothed them.
22. The Lord God said, “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 forever”—
23. therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
24. He drove the man out, and at the east of the garden of Eden He placed the cherubim and a flaming sword which turned in every direction, to guard the way to the tree of life.