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And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become like one of us, knowing good and evil: and now, what if he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eating, live for ever: therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of 'Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

so, the original sin appears to be learning how to multiply before(!) learning how to replenish the earth. then, after the sin is committed, the Lord God resorts to system-wide damage control: a) limit access to resources, i.e. "in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return to the ground"; b) limit the ability to multiply, i.e. "I will greatly multiply the pain of thy childbearing; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children."