Genesis 3
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Genesis 3:17-23

17But to Adam he said, “Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

18It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.

19By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

20The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

21The Lord God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

22And the Lord God said, “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

23So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

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