Readings for Celebrating Advent

“Because you have done this,
    you are more cursed than all the livestock,
        and more than all the earth’s animals,^[b]
You’ll crawl on your belly
    and eat dust
        as long as you live.
¹⁵ “I’ll place hostility between you and the woman,
    between your offspring and her offspring.
He’ll strike you on the head,
    and you’ll strike him on the heel.”