14. The Lord God said to the snake,“Because you did this,a curse will be put on you.You will be cursed as no other animal, tame or wild, will ever be.You will crawl on your stomach,and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
15. I will make you and the womanenemies to each other.Your descendants and her descendantswill be enemies.One of her descendants 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 from which I commanded you not to eat.“So I will put a curse on the ground,and you will have to work very hard for your 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 hard for your food.Later you will return to the ground,because you were taken from it.You are dust,and when you die, you will return to the dust.”
20. The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
21. The Lord God made clothes from animal skins for the man and his wife and dressed them.
22. Then the Lord God said, “Humans have become like one of us; they know good and evil. We must keep them from eating some of the fruit from the tree of life, or they will live forever.”
23. So the Lord God forced Adam out of the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.