God Curses the Serpent and the Ground, the Man, and the Woman

⁸They heard the sound of the Lord God moving about in the garden at the breezy time of day; and the man and his wife hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. ⁹The Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” ¹⁰He replied, “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” ¹¹Then He asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat of the tree from which I had forbidden you to eat?” ¹²The man said, “The woman You put at my side—she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” ¹³And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done!” The woman replied, “The serpent duped me, and I ate.” ¹⁴Then the Lord God said to the serpent,

¹⁶And to the woman He said,

¹⁷To Adam He said, “Because you did as your wife said and ate of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’