Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

New American Standard Bible

And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.”

King James Version

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Holman Bible

I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed.
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.

International Standard Version

"I'll place hostility between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. He'll strike you on the head, and you'll strike him on the heel."

A Conservative Version

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. He shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.

American Standard Version

and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Amplified


“And I will put enmity (open hostility)
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed;
He shall [fatally] bruise your head,
And you shall [only] bruise His heel.”

Darby Translation

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel.

Julia Smith Translation

And I will put enmity between thee and between the woman, and between thy seed and between her seed; it shall lie in wait for thee as to the head, and thou shalt lie in wait for him as to the heel.

King James 2000

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And I will put hostility between you and between the woman, and between your offspring and between her offspring; he will strike you [on the] head, and you will strike him [on the] heel."

Modern King James verseion

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Moreover, I will put hatred between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. And that seed shall tread thee on the head, and thou shalt tread it on the heel."

NET Bible

And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring's heel."

New Heart English Bible

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."

The Emphasized Bible

And enmity, will I put between thee, and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed, - He shall crush thy head, but, thou, shalt crush his heel.

Webster

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

World English Bible

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."

Youngs Literal Translation

and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee -- the head, and thou dost bruise him -- the heel.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And I will put
שׁית 
Shiyth 
Usage: 83

איבה 
'eybah 
Usage: 5

between thee and the woman
נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

זרע 
Zera` 
Usage: 229

and her seed
זרע 
Zera` 
Usage: 229

שׁוּף 
Shuwph 
Usage: 4

ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
Usage: 598

and thou shalt bruise
שׁוּף 
Shuwph 
Usage: 4

Devotionals

Devotionals about Genesis 3:15

Images Genesis 3:15

Context Readings

God Pronounces Judgment

14 And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life: 15 And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded. 16 To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.



Cross References

Romans 16:20

And the God of peace will be crushing Satan under your feet before long. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

1 John 3:8

The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.

Revelation 12:17

And the dragon was angry with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her seed, who keep the orders of God, and the witness of Jesus:

Isaiah 7:14

For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will give him the name Immanuel.

Matthew 1:23

See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.

Galatians 4:4

But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

Isaiah 53:3-4

Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.

Isaiah 53:12

For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you go on turning this way and that, O wandering daughter? for the Lord has made a new thing on the earth, a woman changed into a man.

Daniel 9:26

And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no ...; and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed.

Micah 5:3

For this cause he will give them up till the time when she who is with child has given birth: then the rest of his brothers will come back to the children of Israel.

Matthew 1:25

And he had no connection with her till she had given birth to a son; and he gave him the name Jesus.

Luke 1:31-35

And see, you will give birth to a son, and his name will be Jesus.

John 8:44

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

Acts 13:10

O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord?

Revelation 20:1-3

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the great deep and a great chain in his hand.

Revelation 20:10

And the Evil One who put them in error was sent down into the sea of ever-burning fire, where the beast and the false prophet are, and their punishment will go on day and night for ever and ever.

Genesis 49:17

May Dan be a snake in the way, a horned snake by the road, biting the horse's foot so that the horseman has a fall.

Numbers 21:6-7

Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.

Amos 9:3

Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:

Matthew 4:1-10

Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.

Matthew 12:34

You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

Matthew 13:38

And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One;

Mark 16:18

They will take up snakes, and if there is poison in their drink, it will do them no evil; they will put their hands on those who are ill, and they will get well.

Luke 1:76

And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;

Luke 10:19

See, I have given you power to put your feet on snakes and evil beasts, and over all the strength of him who is against you: and nothing will do you damage.

Luke 22:39-44

And he came out, and went, as his way was, to the Mountain of Olives, and the disciples went with him.

Luke 22:53

When I was in the Temple with you every day, your hands were not stretched out against me: but this is your hour, and the authority of the dark power.

John 12:31-33

Now is this world to be judged: now will the ruler of this world be sent out.

John 14:30-31

After this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and he has no power over me;

Acts 28:3-6

But when Paul had got some sticks together and put them on the fire, a snake came out, because of the heat, and gave him a bite on the hand.

Romans 3:13

Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

Ephesians 4:8

For this reason he says, He went up on high, taking his prisoners with him, and gave freely to men.

Colossians 2:15

Having made himself free from the rule of authorities and powers, he put them openly to shame, glorying over them in it.

Hebrews 2:14-15

And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;

Hebrews 2:18

For having been put to the test himself, he is able to give help to others when they are tested.

Hebrews 5:7

Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.

1 John 3:10

In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

1 John 5:5

Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?

Revelation 2:10

Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 12:7-13

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels going out to the fight with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels made war,

Revelation 13:7

And it was given to him to make war on the saints and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and language and nation.

Revelation 15:1-6

And I saw another sign in heaven, great and strange; seven angels having the seven last punishments, for in them the wrath of God is complete.

Revelation 20:7-8

And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be let loose out of his prison,

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?

Matthew 23:33

You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?

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