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12 The man said, ‘It was the woman that you put here with me. She gave me some fruit from the tree. So I ate it.’

13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, ‘Why have you done a thing like that?’ The woman replied, ‘It was the snake. The snake deceived me with a lie. So I ate the fruit.’

14 The Lord God said to the snake,

‘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.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:14 When God cursed the snake, it means that he punished the snake. Because he is God, what he says will certainly happen.