Genesis 3:17-18

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¹⁷And to the man he said,

“Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree
    whose fruit I commanded you not to eat,
the ground is cursed because of you.
    All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
¹⁸It will grow thorns and thistles for you,
    though you will eat of its grains.

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