15. I will make you and the womanenemies to each other.Your descendants and her descendantswill be enemies.Her child will crush your head.And you will bite his heel.”
16. Then God said to the woman,“I will cause you to have much troublewhen you are pregnant.And when you give birth to children,you will have great pain.You will greatly desire your husband,but he will rule over you.”
17. Then God said to the man, “You listened to what your wife said. And you ate fruit from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from.“So I will put a curse on the ground.You will have to work very hard for food.In pain you will eat its foodall the days of your life.
18. The ground will produce thorns and weeds for you.And you will eat the plants of the field.
19. You will sweat and work hardfor your food.Later you will return to the ground.This is because you were taken from the ground.You are dust.And when you die, you will return to the dust.”
20. The man named his wife Eve. This is because she is the mother of everyone who ever lived.
21. The Lord God made clothes from animal skins for the man and his wife. And so the Lord dressed them.