Mar 23, 2024
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you
above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring[a] and
hers;
he will crush[b] your
head,
and you will strike his heel.”
16 To the woman he said,
“I will make your pains
in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to
children.
Your desire will be for your
husband,
and he will rule over you.”
17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed is the
ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from
it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and
thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the
field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the
ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”