22 ¶ And the Lord God said, [a]Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now lest he put forth his hand, and [b]take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever,

23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the earth, whence he was taken.

24 Thus he cast out the man, and at the East side of the garden of Eden he set the Cherubims, and the blade of a sword shaken, to keep the way of the tree of life.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:22 By this derision he reproacheth Adam’s misery, whereinto he was fallen by ambition.
  2. Genesis 3:22 Adam deprived of life, lost also the sign thereof.

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