始祖犯罪
1在耶和华上帝所造的田野的各种动物中，蛇最狡猾。蛇对女人说：“上帝真的说过‘你们不可吃园中任何树上的果子’吗？” 2女人回答说：“我们可以吃园中树上的果子， 3只是上帝说过，‘你们不可吃园子中间那棵树的果子，也不可摸，免得死亡。’” 4蛇对女人说：“你们一定不会死！ 5上帝那样说是因为祂知道你们吃了那树的果子以后，眼睛就会打开，像上帝一样懂得分辨善恶。” 6女人见那棵树上的果子可口，悦人眼目，可使人有智慧，就摘下来吃了。她又把果子给跟她在一起的丈夫，他也吃了。 7二人的眼睛就打开了，发觉自己原来赤身露体，便编起无花果树的叶子来遮体。
8天起凉风时，那人和他妻子听见耶和华上帝在园中行走的声音，就藏在园子的树丛中，想躲避耶和华上帝。 9耶和华上帝呼唤那人说：“你在哪里？” 10那人说：“我在园中听见你的声音，就害怕得躲了起来，因为我赤身露体！” 11耶和华上帝问：“谁告诉你，说你赤身露体？难道你吃了我吩咐你不可吃的果子吗？” 12那人说：“你赐给我作伴的女人把那树上的果子给我，我就吃了。” 13耶和华上帝对女人说：“你这是做的什么事？”女人说：“是蛇诱骗我，我才吃的。”
上帝的审判
14耶和华上帝对蛇说：
“你既然做了这事，
你要比一切牲畜和野兽受更重的咒诅，
你要用肚子爬行，
一生都要吃尘土。
15我要使你和女人结仇，
你的后裔和女人的后裔也要彼此为仇，
女人的后裔必伤你的头，
你必伤他的脚跟。”
16耶和华上帝对女人说：
“我必大大加重你怀孕的痛苦，
你分娩时必受痛苦。
你必恋慕3:16 “恋慕”或译“想控制”。自己的丈夫，
你的丈夫必管辖你。”
17耶和华上帝又对亚当说：
“因为你听从妻子的话，
吃了我吩咐你不可吃的那树上的果子，
地必因你而受咒诅。
你必终生艰辛劳苦，
才能吃到地里出产的食物。
18地必给你长出荆棘和蒺藜，
你要吃田间长出来的菜蔬。
19你必汗流满面，才有饭吃，
一直到你归回土地。
因为那是你的本源。
你本是尘土，也必归回尘土。”
20亚当给他的妻子取名叫夏娃，因为她是众生之母。 21耶和华上帝做了皮衣给他们夫妇穿上。 22耶和华上帝说：“看啊，那人已经与我们相似，能分辨善恶。现在，恐怕他会伸手去摘生命树的果子吃，就永远活着。” 23因此，耶和华上帝就把亚当赶出伊甸园，让他去开垦土地——那是他的本源。 24祂赶走了亚当以后，在伊甸园东边安排基路伯天使和一把旋转的火剑，守住通往生命树的路。
Adam and Eve Fall Into Sin
1The serpent was more clever than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. The serpent said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat fruit from any tree in the garden’?”
2The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden. 3But God did say, ‘You must not eat the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden. Do not even touch it. If you do, you will die.’ ”
4“You will certainly not die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5“God knows that when you eat fruit from that tree, you will know things you have never known before. Like God, you will be able to tell the difference between good and evil.”
6The woman saw that the tree’s fruit was good to eat and pleasing to look at. She also saw that it would make a person wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her. And he ate it. 7Then both of them knew things they had never known before. They realized they were naked. So they sewed together fig leaves and made clothes for themselves.
8Then the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking in the garden. It was during the coolest time of the day. They hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9But the Lord God called out to the man. “Where are you?” he asked.
10“I heard you in the garden,” the man answered. “I was afraid, because I was naked. So I hid.”
11The Lord God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten fruit from the tree I commanded you not to eat from?”
12The man said, “It’s the fault of the woman you put here with me. She gave me some fruit from the tree. And I ate it.”
13Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What have you done?”
The woman said, “The serpent tricked me. That’s why I ate the fruit.”
14So the Lord God spoke to the serpent. He said, “Because you have done this,
“You are set apart from all livestock
and all wild animals.
I am putting a curse on you.
You will crawl on your belly.
You will eat dust
all the days of your life.
15I will make you and the woman hate each other.
Your children and her children will be enemies.
Her son will crush your head.
And you will bite his heel.”
16The Lord God said to the woman,
“I will increase your pain when you give birth.
You will be in great pain when you have children.
You will long for your husband.
And he will rule over you.”
17The Lord God said to Adam, “You listened to your wife’s suggestion. You ate fruit from the tree I warned you about. I said, ‘You must not eat its fruit.’
“So I am putting a curse on the ground because of what you did.
All the days of your life you will have to work hard.
It will be painful for you to get food from the ground. 18You will eat plants from the field,
even though the ground produces thorns and prickly weeds.
19You will have to work hard and sweat a lot
to produce the food you eat.
You were made out of the ground.
You will return to it when you die.
You are dust,
and you will return to dust.”
20Adam named his wife Eve. She would become the mother of every living person.
21The Lord God made clothes out of animal skins for Adam and his wife to wear. 22The Lord God said, “Just like one of us, the man can now tell the difference between good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out and pick fruit from the tree of life and eat it. If he does, he will live forever.” 23So the Lord God drove the man out of the Garden of Eden. He sent the man to farm the ground he had been made from. 24The Lord God drove him out and then placed angels on the east side of the garden. He also placed there a flaming sword that flashed back and forth. The angels and the sword guarded the way to the tree of life.
