14 The Lord God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this,
    cursed are you above all livestock
    and above all beasts of the field;
on your belly you shall go,
    and (A)dust you shall eat
    all the days of your life.

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14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,

“Cursed(A) are you above all livestock
    and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
    and you will eat dust(B)
    all the days of your life.

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17 (A)they shall lick the dust like a serpent,
    like the crawling things of the earth;
(B)they shall come trembling out of their strongholds;
    (C)they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God,
    and they shall be in fear of you.

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17 They will lick dust(A) like a snake,
    like creatures that crawl on the ground.
They will come trembling(B) out of their dens;
    they will turn in fear(C) to the Lord our God
    and will be afraid of you.

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25 (A)The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
    the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
    and (B)dust shall be the serpent's food.
(C)They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.

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25 The wolf and the lamb(A) will feed together,
    and the lion will eat straw like the ox,(B)
    and dust will be the serpent’s(C) food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
    on all my holy mountain,”(D)
says the Lord.

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May desert tribes (A)bow down before him,
    and his enemies (B)lick the dust!

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May the desert tribes bow before him
    and his enemies lick the dust.

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(A)And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak,
    and from the dust your speech will be bowed down;
your voice shall come from the ground like (B)the voice of a ghost,
    and from the dust your speech shall whisper.

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Brought low, you will speak from the ground;
    your speech will mumble(A) out of the dust.(B)
Your voice will come ghostlike(C) from the earth;
    out of the dust your speech will whisper.(D)

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Curses for Disobedience

15 “But (A)if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and (B)overtake you. 16 Cursed shall you be (C)in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 19 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

20 “The Lord (D)will send on you curses, confusion, and (E)frustration in all that you undertake to do, (F)until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me.

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Curses for Disobedience

15 However, if you do not obey(A) the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today,(B) all these curses will come on you and overtake you:(C)

16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.(D)

17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.(E)

18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.(F)

19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.(G)

20 The Lord will send on you curses,(H) confusion and rebuke(I) in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin(J) because of the evil(K) you have done in forsaking him.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:20 Hebrew me

25 (A)You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.

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25 “‘You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds.(A) Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground—those that I have set apart as unclean for you.

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(A)“Whoever sheds the blood of man,
    by man shall his blood be shed,
(B)for God made man in his own image.

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“Whoever sheds human blood,
    by humans shall their blood be shed;(A)
for in the image of God(B)
    has God made mankind.

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28 “When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the (A)ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable. 29 But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. 30 If (B)a ransom is imposed on him, then (C)he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed on him. 31 If it gores a man's son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule. 32 If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master (D)thirty shekels[a] of silver, and (E)the ox shall be stoned.

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  1. Exodus 21:32 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

28 “If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull is to be stoned to death,(A) and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible. 29 If, however, the bull has had the habit of goring and the owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up(B) and it kills a man or woman, the bull is to be stoned and its owner also is to be put to death. 30 However, if payment is demanded, the owner may redeem his life by the payment of whatever is demanded.(C) 31 This law also applies if the bull gores a son or daughter. 32 If the bull gores a male or female slave, the owner must pay thirty shekels[a](D) of silver to the master of the slave, and the bull is to be stoned to death.

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  1. Exodus 21:32 That is, about 12 ounces or about 345 grams

The Fall

Now (A)the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.

He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You[a] shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”

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  1. Genesis 3:1 In Hebrew you is plural in verses 1–5

The Fall

Now the serpent(A) was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?(B)

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