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16 He told the woman,

“I’ll greatly increase the pain of your labor during childbirth.
    It will be painful for you to bear children,
“since your trust is turning[a] toward your husband,
    and he will dominate you.”

17 He told the man,

“Because you have listened to what your wife said,[b]
    and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you,[c]
        ‘You are not to not eat from it,’
cursed is the ground because of you.
    You’ll eat from it through pain-filled labor
        for the rest of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
    and you’ll eat the plants from the meadows.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:16 Or Your desire is
  2. Genesis 3:17 Lit. to the voice of your wife
  3. Genesis 3:17 Lit. you when I said

16 To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
    with painful labor you will give birth to children.(A)
Your desire will be for your husband,
    and he will rule over you.(B)

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,’(C)

“Cursed(D) is the ground(E) because of you;
    through painful toil(F) you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.(G)
18 It will produce thorns and thistles(H) for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.(I)

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