Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
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Bible References
Thou art
Genesis 3:1
And the serpent was crafty above every beast of the field which Jehovah God made; and he will say to the woman, Is it because God said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Genesis 9:6
He pouring out man's blood, by man his blood shall be poured out: for in the image of God he made man.
Exodus 21:28
And if an ox shall push (with the horns) a man or a woman, and he died; stoning, the ox shall be stoned, and he shall not eat his flesh; and the lord of the ox being innocent
Leviticus 20:25
And ye separated between clean cattle to unclean, and between unclean birds and clean: and ye shall not make you souls abhorred by cattle or bird, and by any which shall creep upon the earth which I separated to you for unclean.
Dust
Psalm 72:9
Inhabitants of the desert shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust
Isaiah 29:4
And thou being brought down, thou shalt speak from the earth, and thy word shall be depressed out of the dust, and thy voice as a necromancer from the earth, and thy saying Shall peep from the dust
Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb shall feed as one, and the lion and the ox shall eat straw, and the serpent, dust his bread. They shall not do evil, and they shall not destroy in all my holy mountain, said Jehovah
Micah 7:17
They shall lick the dust as the serpent, as crawlers of the earth they shall move out of their close places: for Jehovah our God they shall tremble and they shall fear from thee
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Genesis 4:11
And now cursed art thou, from the earth, which opened her mouth to take thy brother's bloods from thy hand.
Numbers 21:6
And Jehovah will send upon the people deadly serpents, and they will bite the people; and much people will die from Israel