14 Then the Lord God said to the serpent:

Because you have done this,
you are cursed more than any livestock
and more than any wild animal.
You will move on your belly
and eat dust all the days of your life.(A)
15 I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed.
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.(B)

16 He said to the woman:

I will intensify your labor pains;
you will bear children in anguish.(C)
Your desire(D) will be for your husband,
yet he will rule over you.

17 And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.(E)
You will eat from it by means of painful labor[a]
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.(F)
19 You will eat bread[b] by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,(G)
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:17 Lit it through pain
  2. Genesis 3:19 Or food

11 People will live there, and never again will there be a curse of complete destruction. So Jerusalem will dwell in security.

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