Genesis 3:14-19

New King James Version

¹⁴So the Lord God said to the serpent:

“Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And ^(A)you shall eat dust
All the days of your life.
¹⁵And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between ^(B)your seed and ^(C)her Seed;
^(D)He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”

¹⁶To the woman He said:

“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;
^(E)In pain you shall bring forth children;
^(F)Your desire shall be ^[a]for your husband,
And he shall ^(G)rule over you.”

¹⁷Then to Adam He said, ^(H)“Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree ^(I)of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

^(J)“Cursed is the ground for your sake;
^(K)In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.
¹⁸Both thorns and thistles it shall ^[b]bring forth for you,
And ^(L)you shall eat the herb of the field.
¹⁹^(M)In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
^(N)For dust you are,
And ^(O)to dust you shall return.”