Genesis 3:14
English Standard Version
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.
Micah 7:17
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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.
Isaiah 65:25
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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.
Psalm 72:9
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Isaiah 29:4
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4 (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.
Deuteronomy 28:15-20
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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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Leviticus 20:25
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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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Genesis 9:6
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6 (A)“Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed,
(B)for God made man in his own image.
Exodus 21:28-32
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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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- Exodus 21:32 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
Genesis 3:1
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The Fall
3 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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- Genesis 3:1 In Hebrew you is plural in verses 1–5
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