Readings for Celebrating Advent

‘Because you have done this, I will curse you.^[a]
Among all the farm animals and wild animals,
you are the one that I will curse.
From now on, you will move across the ground on your stomach.
You will eat dust from the ground.
You will do this for your whole life.
¹⁵ I will cause you and the woman to become enemies.
Your descendants and her descendants will always be enemies.
One of her descendants will attack your head.^[b]
You will attack his heel.’^[c]