16. Then God said to the woman, “I will cause you to have much trouble when you are pregnant. And when you give birth to children, you will have much pain. You will want your husband very much, but he will rule over you.”
17. Then God said to the man, “I commanded you not to eat from that tree. But you listened to your wife and ate from it. So I will curse the ground because of you. You will have to work hard all your life for the food the ground produces.
18. The ground will grow thorns and weeds for you. And you will have to eat the plants that grow wild in the fields.
19. You will work hard for your food, until your face is covered with sweat. You will work hard until the day you die, and then you will become dust again. I used dust to make you, and when you die, you will become dust again.”
20. Adam named his wife Eve. He gave her this name because Eve would be the mother of everyone who ever lived.
21. The Lord God used animal skins and made some clothes for the man and his wife. Then he put the clothes on them.
22. The Lord God said, “Look, the man has become like us—he knows about good and evil. And now the man might take the fruit from the tree of life. If the man eats that fruit, he will live forever.”
23. So the Lord God forced the man out of the Garden of Eden to work the ground he was made from.
24. God forced the man to leave the garden. Then he put Cherub angels and a sword of fire at the entrance to the garden to protect it. The sword flashed around and around, guarding the way to the tree of life.