God pronounced a stern judgement on Adam's transgressions, banishing him and his wife from paradise. But at the same time, God made a wonderful promise to them.
To the serpent, the Lord God said: "Because you tempted Eve, you will be cursed among all the cattle and beasts of the earth. You will crawl upon your belly, and you will eat dust all the days of your life. I shall put enmity between you and the woman; between your seed and her seed. He shall crush your head, and you shall lie in wait for his heel.
To Eve, the Lord God said: "I will multiply your sorrows. In pain sorrow, you will bring forth your children, and you will be always under your husband's power, and he will have dominion over you.
Finally, the Lord God said to Adam: "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and you have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, cursed is the earth because of you: with labor and toil you shall eat thereof all the days of your life. thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, and you will eat the herbs of the earth. In sweat of your face shall you eat bread till you return to the earth out of which you were taken."
At the gate of Paradise God placed a Cherubim with a flamming sword to prevent their return.
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