The Exile From Eden

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman: Did God really say, You shall not eat from any tree of the garden? And the woman said to the serpent: Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat. But of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God said, You shall not eat from it and you shall not touch it, lest you die. And the serpent said to the woman: You shall surely not die. For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, and she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed together fig leaves and made themselves loincloths. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking about in the garden in the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. And the man said: The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate. And the LORD God said to the serpent: Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the cattle and above every beast of the field; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. To the woman He said: I will greatly multiply your pain and your childbearing; in pain you shall bear children, and your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you. By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, until you return to the ground, for from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return. And the man called the name of his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living. And the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to work the ground from which he was taken. And He drove out the man, and He stationed east of the garden of Eden the cherubim and the flame of the ever-turning sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.