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18 Your food will be plants,
but the ground will produce
    thorns and thistles.
19 You will sweat all your life
    to earn a living;
you were made out of soil,
and you will once again
    turn into soil.”

20 The man Adam[a] named his wife Eve[b] because she would become the mother of all who live.

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Footnotes

  1. 3.20 The man Adam: In Hebrew “man” and “Adam” are the same.
  2. 3.20 Eve: In Hebrew “Eve” sounds like “living.”

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