said unto the serpent because thou hast so done most cursed be thou of
all cattle and of all beasts of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou
go: and earth shalt thou eat all days of thy life. Moreover I will put
hatred between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed.
And that seed shall tread thee on the head, and thou shalt tread it
{hit} on the heel. And unto the woman he said: I will surely increase
thy sorrow and make thee oft with child, and with pain shalt thou be
delivered: And thy lusts shall pertain unto thy husband and he shall
rule thee. And unto Adam he said: Forasmuch as thou hast obeyed the
voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded
thee, saying: See thou eat not thereof: cursed be the earth for thy
sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all days of thy life: And it
shall bear thorns and thistles unto thee. And thou shalt eat the herbs
of the field: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou
return unto the earth whence thou wast take: for earth thou art, and
unto earth shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife Heva, because
she was the mother of all that liveth. And the LORD God made Adam and
his wife garments of skins, and put them on them. And the LORD God
said: Lo, Adam is become as it were one of us, in knowledge of good and
evil. But now lest he stretch forth his hand and take also of the tree
of life and eat and live ever. And the LORD God cast him out of the
garden of Eden, to till the earth whence he was taken. And he cast Adam
out, and set at the entering of the garden Eden, Cherubim with a naked
sword moving in and out, to keep the way to the tree of life.
Chapter .iiij.
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