17. And to Adam he said, “Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree from which I forbade you to eat, the ground shall be cursed on your account. In pain you shall eat from it all the days of your life.
18. And thorns and thistles shall sprout for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.
19. By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, until your return to the ground. For from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
20. And the man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all life.
21. And Yahweh God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skin, and he clothed them.
22. And Yahweh God said, “Look—the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. What if he stretches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life and eats, and lives forever?”
23. And Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
24. So he drove the man out, and placed cherubim east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming, turning sword to guard the way to the tree of life.