17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;

(A)Cursed is the ground because of you;
(B)With [a]hard labor you shall eat from it
All the days of your life.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:17 Or hardship

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’(A)

“Cursed(B) is the ground(C) because of you;
    through painful toil(D) you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.(E)

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29 And he named him Noah, saying, “This one will give us comfort from our work and from the hard labor of our hands caused by (A)the ground which the Lord has cursed.”

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29 He named him Noah[a](A) and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 5:29 Noah sounds like the Hebrew for comfort.