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Chapter 3
1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God made. And he said to the woman: Why has God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?
2 And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God has commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.
4 And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death.
5 For God knows that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband who did eat.
7 And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceived themselves to be naked, they sewed together fig leaves, and made themselves aprons.
8 And when they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in paradise at the afternoon air, Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God, amidst the trees of paradise.
9 And the Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where are you?
10 And he said: I heard your voice in paradise; and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.
11 And he said to him: And who has told you that you were naked, but that you have eaten of the tree whereof I commanded you that you should not eat?
12 And Adam said: The woman, whom you gave me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
13 And the Lord God said to the woman: Why have you done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.
14 And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because you have done this thing, you are cursed among all cattle, and the beasts of the earth: upon your breast shall you go, and earth shall you eat all the days of your life.
15 I will put enmities between you and the woman, and your seed and her seed: she shall crush your head, and you shall lie in wait for her heel.
16 To the woman also he said: I will multiply your sorrows, and your conceptions: in sorrow shall you bring forth children, and you shall be under your husband's power, and he shall have dominion over you.
17 And to Adam he said: Because you have hearkened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded you that you should not eat, cursed is the earth in your work; with labour and toil shall you eat thereof all the days of your life.
18 Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you; and you eat the herbs of the earth.
19 In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread till you return to the earth, out of which you were taken: for dust you art, and into dust you shall return.
20 And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.
21 And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife, garments of skins, and clothed them.
22 And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now, therefore, lest perhaps he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.
23 And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.
24 And he cast out Adam; and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubims, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.