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17 And to Adam[a] he said, “Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree from which I forbade you to eat,[b]

the ground shall be cursed on your account.
    In pain you shall eat from it
    all the days of your life.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:17 The noun lacks the definite article and is taken as a proper noun in this context
  2. Genesis 3:17 Literally “from the tree which I commanded saying not to eat from it”