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18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
    and you’ll eat the plants from the meadows.
19 You will eat food by the sweat of your brow
    until you’re buried in[a] the ground,
        because you were taken from it.
You’re made from dust
    and you’ll return to dust.”

20 Now Adam[b] had named his wife “Eve,”[c] because she was to become the mother of everyone who was living.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:19 Lit. you return to
  2. Genesis 3:20 Or the man
  3. Genesis 3:20 The Heb. name Hawwa (Eve) means life.