Genesis 3:14-19

Easy-to-Read Version

“You did this very bad thing,
    so bad things will happen to you.
It will be worse for you
    than for any other animal.
You must crawl on your belly
    and eat dust all the days of your life.
¹⁵ I will make you and the woman enemies to each other.
    Your children and her children will be enemies.
You will bite her child’s foot,
    but he will crush your head.”

“I will cause you to have much trouble
    when you are pregnant.
And when you give birth to children,
    you will have much pain.
You will want your husband very much,
    but he will rule over you.”^[a]

“I commanded you not to eat from that tree.
    But you listened to your wife and ate from it.
So I will curse the ground because of you.
    You will have to work hard all your life for the food the ground produces.
¹⁸ The ground will grow thorns and weeds for you.
    And you will have to eat the plants that grow wild in the fields.^[b]
19 You will work hard for your food,
    until your face is covered with sweat.
You will work hard until the day you die,
    and then you will become dust again.
I used dust to make you,
    and when you die, you will become dust again.”