The Punishment of Mankind

16 To the woman He said:

“I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth;

in pain you will bring forth children.

Your desire will be for your husband,[fn]

and he will rule over you.”

17 And to Adam He said:

“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife

and have eaten from the tree

of which I commanded you not to eat,

cursed is the ground because of you;

through toil you will eat of it

all the days of your life.

18 Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you,

and you will eat the plants of the field.

19 By the sweat of your brow

you will eat your bread,

until you return to the ground—

because out of it were you taken.

For dust you are,

and to dust you shall return.”

20 And Adam named his wife Eve,[fn] because she would be the mother of all the living.