Genesis 3:17-24 ▼

17 He told the man, |Because you have listened to what your wife said, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground because of you. You'll eat from it through pain-filled labor for the rest of your life.

18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you'll eat the plants from the meadows.

19 You will eat food by the sweat of your brow until you're buried in the ground, because you were taken from it. You're made from dust and you'll return to dust.|

20 Now Adam had named his wife |Eve,| because she was to become the mother of everyone who was living.

21 The LORD God fashioned garments from animal skins for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

22 Later, the LORD God said, |Look! The man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, so he won't reach out, also take from the tree of life, eat, and then live forever—|

23 therefore the LORD God expelled the man from the garden of Eden so he would work the ground from which he had been taken.

24 After he had expelled the man, the LORD God placed winged angels at the eastern end of the garden of Eden, along with a fiery, turning sword, to prevent access to the tree of life.