17-19. He told the Man:“Because you listened to your wifeand ate from the treeThat I commanded you not to eat from,‘Don’t eat from this tree,’The very ground is cursed because of you;getting food from the groundWill be as painful as having babies is for your wife;you’ll be working in pain all your life long.The ground will sprout thorns and weeds,you’ll get your food the hard way,Planting and tilling and harvesting,sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk,Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried;you started out as dirt, you’ll end up dirt.”
20. The Man, known as Adam, named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.
21. God made leather clothing for Adam and his wife and dressed them.
22. God said, “The Man has become like one of us, capable of knowing everything, ranging from good to evil. What if he now should reach out and take fruit from the Tree-of-Life and eat, and live forever? Never—this cannot happen!”
23-24. So God expelled them from the Garden of Eden and sent them to work the ground, the same dirt out of which they’d been made. He threw them out of the garden and stationed angel-cherubim and a revolving sword of fire east of it, guarding the path to the Tree-of-Life.