To Adam He said, "Because you listened to
your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You
must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through
painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will
produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of
the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until
you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust
you are and to dust you will return" (Genesis
3:17-19).