Because you have done this,
you are cursed more than any livestock
and more than any wild animal.
You will move on your belly
and eat dust all the days of your life.^(A)
15 I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring.^[a]
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.^(B)

I will intensify your labor pains;
you will bear children with painful effort.^(C)
Your desire^(D) will be for your husband,
yet he will rule over you.

The ground is cursed because of you.^(E)
You will eat from it by means of painful labor^[b]
all the days of your life.
¹⁸ It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.^(F)
19 You will eat bread^[c] by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,^(G)
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”