8. In the cool of the evening, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking around in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees in the garden.
9. The Lord God called to the man and asked him, “Where are you?”
10. He answered, “I heard you in the garden. I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
11. God asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat fruit from the tree I commanded you not to eat from?”
12. The man answered, “That woman, the one you gave me, gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13. Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?”“The snake deceived me, and I ate,” the woman answered.
14. So the Lord God said to the snake, “Because you have done this,You are cursed more than all the wild or domestic animals.You will crawl on your belly.You will be the lowest of animals as long as you live.
15. I will make you and the woman hostile toward each other.I will make your descendantsand her descendant hostile toward each other.He will crush your head,and you will bruise his heel.”
16. He said to the woman,“I will increase your pain and your laborwhen you give birth to children.Yet, you will long for your husband,and he will rule you.”
17. Then he said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree, although I commanded you, ‘You must never eat its fruit.’The ground is cursed because of you.Through hard work you will eat ⌊food that comes⌋ from itevery day of your life.