16. Then he said to the woman,“I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy,and in pain you will give birth.And you will desire to control your husband,but he will rule over you.”
17. And to the man he said,“Since you listened to your wife and ate from the treewhose fruit I commanded you not to eat,the ground is cursed because of you.All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
18. It will grow thorns and thistles for you,though you will eat of its grains.
19. By the sweat of your browwill you have food to eatuntil you return to the groundfrom which you were made.For you were made from dust,and to dust you will return.”
20. Then the man—Adam—named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all who live.
21. And the lord God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife.