Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:8-24

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”  To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from 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.”

So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

Why?

Adam and his wife Eve ate the fruit that the Lord forbade, so they were banished from the Garden of Eden to work the ground and for dust, Adam came, and to dust, Adam will return. They could not have eternal life.

These are the laws that every man needs to work hard to get food for a living. And the women have to bear the labor to give birth to children. These are the penalties of sin to all human beings.

How?

Thanks the Lord gives us a new way to get eternal life, which is through Jesus Christ. Through one man all are die, but in the same manner through one man Jesus Christ, we can get eternal life.