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  • Genesis 3:14-19

    14 The Lord God said to the snake,

    “Because you did this,
        you are the one cursed
            out of all the farm animals,
            out of all the wild animals.
        On your belly you will crawl,
            and dust you will eat
            every day of your life.

    15 I will put contempt

        between you and the woman,
        between your offspring and hers.
    They will strike your head,
            but you will strike at their heels.”

    16 To the woman he said,

    “I will make your pregnancy very painful;
                in pain you will bear children.
    You will desire your husband,
            but he will rule over you.”

    17 To the man he said, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and you ate from the tree that I commanded, ‘Don’t eat from it,’

    cursed is the fertile land because of you;
            in pain you will eat from it
            every day of your life.
    18 Weeds and thistles will grow for you,
            even as you eat the field’s plants;
    19     by the sweat of your face you will eat bread—
            until you return to the fertile land,
                since from it you were taken;
                you are soil,
                    to the soil you will return.”