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)In [a]toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.

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  1. Genesis 3:17 Or sorrow

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 Now he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will [a]give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from (A)the ground which the Lord has cursed.”

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  1. Genesis 5:29 Lit comfort us in

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