2:15 Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately. ¹ 

3:14 The Lord God said to the serpent, ¹ 

“Because you have done this,

cursed ²  are you above all the wild beasts

and all the living creatures of the field!

On your belly you will crawl ³ 

and dust you will eat ⁴  all the days of your life.

3:15 And I will put hostility ⁵  between you and the woman

and between your offspring and her offspring; ⁶ 

her offspring will attack ⁷  your head,

and ⁸  you ⁹  will attack her offspring’s heel.” ¹⁰ 

3:16 To the woman he said,

“I will greatly increase ¹¹  your labor pains; ¹² 

with pain you will give birth to children.

You will want to control your husband, ¹³ 

but he will dominate ¹⁴  you.”

3:17 But to Adam ¹⁵  he said,

“Because you obeyed ¹⁶  your wife

and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,

‘You must not eat from it,’

cursed is the ground ¹⁷  thanks to you; ¹⁸ 

in painful toil you will eat ¹⁹  of it all the days of your life.

3:18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

but you will eat the grain ²⁰  of the field.

3:19 By the sweat of your brow ²¹  you will eat food

until you return to the ground, ²² 

for out of it you were taken;

for you are dust, and to dust you will return.” ²³ 

3:20 The man ²⁴  named his wife Eve, ²⁵  because ²⁶  she was the mother of all the living. ²⁷  3:21 The Lord God made garments from skin ²⁸  for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. 3:22 And the Lord God said, “Now ²⁹  that the man has become like one of us, ³⁰  knowing ³¹  good and evil, he must not be allowed ³²  to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 3:23 So the Lord God expelled him ³³  from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken. 3:24 When he drove ³⁴  the man out, he placed on the eastern side ³⁵  of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries ³⁶  who used the flame of a whirling sword ³⁷  to guard the way to the tree of life.

4:1 Now ³⁸  the man had marital relations with ³⁹  his wife Eve, and she became pregnant ⁴⁰  and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, “I have created ⁴¹  a man just as the Lord did!” ⁴²  4:2 Then she gave birth ⁴³  to his brother Abel. ⁴⁴  Abel took care of the flocks, while Cain cultivated the ground. ⁴⁵ 

4:3 At the designated time ⁴⁶  Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering ⁴⁷  to the Lord.