Now the serpent was more deceitful than any other animal that Jehovah had made;

and it said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat from any tree
of the garden'?" The woman answered, "We may eat of the fruit of all the trees
of the garden except the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden,
for God has said, 'You shall not eat from it, nor shall you touch it; for if yo
u do, you shall die.'" Then the serpent said to the woman, "You shall not surely
die; for God knows that as soon as you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and
you will know what is good and what is evil."
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, beautiful to look at and tha
t it would make her wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. Then she gave s
ome to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, so that they knew that they were nake
d; and they sewed fig-leaves together and made girdles for themselves. When they
heard the sound of the footsteps of Jehovah, as he was walking in the garden in
the cool of the day, the man and his wife hid from him among the trees of the g
arden.
And Jehovah called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?" and he answered,
"I heard the sound of thy footsteps in the garden and I was afraid, because I w
as naked; so I hid myself." Jehovah said, "Who told you that you were naked? Hav
e you eaten from the tree from which I forbade you to eat?" The man answered, "T
he woman whom thou didst give to me she gave me fruit from the tree and I ate." Je
hovah said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman replied, "
The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Then Jehovah said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you shall be hate
d more than all beasts. You shall crawl on your belly and eat dust all your life
, and men and serpents shall always be enemies. They shall bruise your head, and
you shall wound them on the heel."
To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your trouble and your pain, and y
ou shall be subject to your husband, and he shall rule over you."
But to the man he said, "Because you have listened to your wife and have eaten o
f the tree from which I forbade you to eat, as long as you live you shall earn a
living only by hard work. By hard work shall you raise food to eat. And you sha
ll die and your body go back to the ground, for from dust you were made, and to
dust you shall return!"
And Jehovah made garments of skins for the man and his wife, and clothed them. A
nd he sent them out of the garden of Eden to till the ground.