6 The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 3:6 1Tm 2:14; Jms 1:14–15; 1Jn 2:16
Sin’s Consequences
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, 3:8 Lit at the wind of the day and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 3:8 Jb 34:22–23
15 I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring. 3:15 Lit your seed and her seed
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel. 3:15 Heb 2:14; 1Jn 3:8
19 You will eat bread 3:19 Or food by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground, 3:19 Ps 90:3; 104:29; Ec 12:7
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust."
24 He drove the man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life. 3:24 Ex 25:18–22; Ps 104:4; Ezk 10:1–20; Heb 1:7