2:11 Where now is the den of the lions, ¹ 

the feeding place ²  of the young lions,

where ³  the lion, lioness, ⁴  and lion cub once prowled ⁵ 

and no one disturbed them? ⁶ 

2:12 The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed ⁷ 

and strangled prey to provide food ⁸  for his lionesses;

he filled ⁹  his lairs with prey

and his dens with torn flesh.

2:13 “I am against you!” declares ¹⁰  the Lord who commands armies: ¹¹ 

“I will burn your chariots ¹²  with fire; ¹³ 

the sword will devour your young lions; ¹⁴ 

you will no longer prey upon the land; ¹⁵ 

the voices of your messengers ¹⁶  will no longer be heard.”

3:8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God moving about ¹  in the orchard at the breezy time ²  of the day, and they hid ³  from the Lord God among the trees of the orchard. 3:9 But the Lord God called to ⁴  the man and said to him, “Where are you?” ⁵  3:10 The man replied, ⁶  “I heard you moving about ⁷  in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” 3:11 And the Lord God ⁸  said, “Who told you that you were naked? ⁹  Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” ¹⁰  3:12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave ¹¹  me some fruit ¹²  from the tree and I ate it.” 3:13 So the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this ¹³  you have done?” And the woman replied, “The serpent ¹⁴  tricked ¹⁵  me, and I ate.”

3:14 The Lord God said to the serpent, ¹⁶ 

“Because you have done this,

cursed ¹⁷  are you above all the wild beasts

and all the living creatures of the field!

On your belly you will crawl ¹⁸ 

and dust you will eat ¹⁹  all the days of your life.

3:15 And I will put hostility ²⁰  between you and the woman

and between your offspring and her offspring; ²¹ 

her offspring will attack ²²  your head,

and ²³  you ²⁴  will attack her offspring’s heel.” ²⁵ 

3:16 To the woman he said,

“I will greatly increase ²⁶  your labor pains; ²⁷ 

with pain you will give birth to children.

You will want to control your husband, ²⁸ 

but he will dominate ²⁹  you.”

3:17 But to Adam ³⁰  he said,

“Because you obeyed ³¹  your wife

and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,

‘You must not eat from it,’

cursed is the ground ³²  thanks to you; ³³ 

in painful toil you will eat ³⁴  of it all the days of your life.

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

but you will eat the grain ³⁵  of the field.

3:19 By the sweat of your brow ³⁶  you will eat food

until you return to the ground, ³⁷ 

for out of it you were taken;

for you are dust, and to dust you will return.” ³⁸