Then God talked to the man. He said, “Adam, I told you not to eat any fruit from that tree in the middle of the garden, but you listened to your wife, and you ate that fruit. So I will curse this ground and make it bad for you. It will not be easy for you to get your food any more. You will have to get it from the plants in the ground, and that ground will have lots of weeds and prickles in it. You will work very hard to get your food, so you will get hot, and you will sweat a lot. And later on you will die. I made you from the dirt, and after you die, your body will turn back into dirt.”