20 For the creation (A)was subjected to futility, not willingly, but (B)because of him who subjected it, in hope

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17 And to Adam he said,

“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
    and have eaten of the tree
(A)of which I commanded you,
    ‘You shall not eat of it,’
(B)cursed is the ground because of you;
    (C)in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
    and you shall eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
(D)for you are dust,
    and (E)to dust you shall return.”

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29 and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground (A)that the Lord has cursed, this one shall bring us relief[a] from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.”

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Footnotes

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

22 For we know that (A)the whole creation (B)has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.

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(A)How long will the land mourn
    and the grass of every field wither?
(B)For the evil of those who dwell in it
    (C)the beasts and the birds are swept away,
    because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”

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Therefore (A)the land mourns,
    and all who dwell in it languish,
(B)and also the beasts of the field
    and the birds of the heavens,
    (C)and even the fish of the sea are taken away.

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Even (A)the doe in the field forsakes her newborn fawn
    because there is no grass.
(B)The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights;
    they pant for air like jackals;
their eyes fail
    because there is no vegetation.

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The earth lies (A)defiled
    under its inhabitants;
for (B)they have transgressed the laws,
    violated the statutes,
    broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore (C)a curse devours the earth,
    and its inhabitants (D)suffer for their guilt;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched,
    and few men are left.

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(A)Vanity[a] of vanities, says (B)the Preacher,
    (C)vanity of vanities! (D)All is vanity.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:2 The Hebrew term hebel, translated vanity or vain, refers concretely to a “mist,” “vapor,” or “mere breath,” and metaphorically to something that is fleeting or elusive (with different nuances depending on the context). It appears five times in this verse and in 29 other verses in Ecclesiastes

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