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Genesis 3:16-19
New International Version
Genesis 3:16-19
New International Version
16 To the woman he said,
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.(A)
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.(B)”
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,’(C)
“Cursed(D) is the ground(E) because of you;
through painful toil(F) you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.(G)
18 It will produce thorns and thistles(H) for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.(I)
19 By the sweat of your brow(J)
you will eat your food(K)
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”(L)
Genesis 3:16-19
New Living Translation
Genesis 3:16-19
New Living Translation
16 Then he said to the woman,
“I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy,
and in pain you will give birth.
And you will desire to control your husband,
but he will rule over you.[a]”
17 And to the man he said,
“Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree
whose fruit I commanded you not to eat,
the ground is cursed because of you.
All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you,
though you will eat of its grains.
19 By the sweat of your brow
will you have food to eat
until you return to the ground
from which you were made.
For you were made from dust,
and to dust you will return.”
Footnotes
- 3:16 Or And though you will have desire for your husband, / he will rule over you.
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