“Yahweh God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this,you are cursed above all livestock,and above every animal of the field.You shall go on your bellyand you shall eat dust all the days of your life.”
Genesis 3:14 (WEB)
Context Reading
12The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” 13Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” 14Yahweh God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this,you are cursed above all livestock,and above every animal of the field.You shall go on your bellyand you shall eat dust all the days of your life. 15I will put hostility between you and the woman,and between your offspring and her offspring.He will bruise your head,and you will bruise his heel.” 16To the woman he said,“I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth.You will bear children in pain.Your desire will be for your husband,and he will rule over you.”