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18 And thorns and thistles shall sprout for you,
    and you shall eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow[a]
    you shall eat bread,
until your return to the ground.
    For from it you were taken;
for you are dust,
    and to dust you shall return.”

20 And the man[b] named[c] his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all life.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:19 Literally “your face”
  2. Genesis 3:20 “The man” indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article
  3. Genesis 3:20 Literally “called the name”