The serpent was more crafty than any wild creature that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Is it true that God has forbidden you to eat from any tree in the garden?"
The woman answered, "We may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden, except for the tree in the middle; God has forbidden us to eat or touch its fruit, or we shall die."
The serpent replied, "You will not die. God knows that when you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil."
Seeing that the fruit was good to eat, pleasing to the eye, and tempting, the woman took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, and he ate it. Immediately, their eyes were opened, and they realized they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths.
That evening, they heard the Lord God walking in the garden and hid among the trees. The Lord God called to the man, "Where are you?"
The man replied, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."
God asked, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree I commanded you not to eat from?"
The man said, "The woman you gave me—she gave me the fruit, and I ate it."
The Lord God then said to the woman, "What have you done?"
The woman said, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate."
Then the Lord God said to the serpent:
"Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock and wild animals. You will crawl on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."
To the woman he said:
"I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
And to the man he said:
"Because you listened to your wife and ate from the forbidden tree, the ground is cursed because of you. Through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."
The man named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
And the Lord God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.