Readings for Celebrating Advent

“^(A)Because you have done this,
Cursed are you more than any of the cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you will go,
And ^(B)dust you will eat
All the days of your life;
¹⁵ And I will put ^(C)enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
^(D)He shall ^[a]bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.”