“To Adam he said,“Because you have listened to your wife’s voice,and have eaten from the tree,about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’the ground is cursed for your sake.You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.”
Genesis 3:17 (WEB)
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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.” 17To Adam he said,“Because you have listened to your wife’s voice,and have eaten from the tree,about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’the ground is cursed for your sake.You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life. 18It will yield thorns and thistles to you;and you will eat the herb of the field. 19You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground,for you were taken out of it.For you are dust,and you shall return to dust.”