7. Then, it was as if their eyes were opened. They realized they were naked, so they sewed fig leaves together and made something to cover themselves.
8. Then they heard the Lord God walking in the garden during the cool part of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the Lord God among the trees in the garden.
9. But the Lord God called to the man and said, “Where are you?”
10. The man answered, “I heard you walking in the garden, and 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 from which I commanded you not to eat?”
12. The man said, “You gave this woman to me and she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it.”
13. Then the Lord God said to the woman, “How could you have done such a thing?”She answered, “The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit.”
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.