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18 The ground will produce thorns and weeds for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 You will sweat and work hard for your food.
Later you will return to the ground,
    because you were taken from it.
You are dust,
    and when you die, you will return to the dust.”

20 The man named his wife Eve,[a] because she was the mother of all the living.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:20 Eve This name sounds like the Hebrew word meaning “alive.”

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