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14 Then[a] Yahweh God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this,
    you will be cursed
    more than any domesticated animal
    and more than any wild animal.[b]
On your belly you shall go
    and dust you shall eat
    all the days of your life.
15 And I will put hostility
    between you and between the woman,
    and between your offspring[c] and between her offspring;[d]
he will strike you on the head,
    and you will strike him on the heel.”

16 To the woman he said,

“I will greatly increase
    your pain in childbearing;[e]
    in pain you shall bear children.
And to your husband shall be your desire.
    And he shall rule over you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:14 Or “And”
  2. Genesis 3:14 Literally “animal of the earth/land”
  3. Genesis 3:15 Literally “seed”
  4. Genesis 3:15 Literally “seed”
  5. Genesis 3:16 Literally “your pain and your childbearing”