Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.
New American Standard Bible
“I will greatly multiply
Your pain
In pain you will
Yet your desire will be for your husband,
And
King James Version
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Holman Bible
He said to the woman:
you will bear children in anguish.
Your desire
yet he will rule over you.
International Standard Version
He told the woman, "I'll greatly increase the pain of your labor during childbirth. It will be painful for you to bear children, "since your trust is turning toward your husband, and he will dominate you."
A Conservative Version
To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy childbearing, in pain thou shall bring forth children. And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
American Standard Version
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Amplified
“I will greatly multiply
Your pain in childbirth;
In pain you will give birth to children;
Yet your desire and longing will be for your husband,
And he will rule [with authority] over you and be responsible for you.”
Bible in Basic English
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.
Julia Smith Translation
To the woman he said, Multiplying, I will multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and to thy husband thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.
King James 2000
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in sorrow you shall bring forth children; and your desire shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase {your pain in childbearing}; in pain you shall bear children. And to your husband [shall be] your desire. And he shall rule over you."
Modern King James verseion
To the woman He said, I will greatly increase your sorrow and your conception. In pain you shall bear sons, and your desire shall be toward your husband, and he shall rule over you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And unto the woman he said, "I will surely increase thy sorrow and make thee oft with child, and with pain shalt thou be delivered: And thy lusts shall pertain unto thy husband and he shall rule thee."
NET Bible
To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you."
New Heart English Bible
To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
The Emphasized Bible
Unto the woman, he said, I will, increase, thy pain of pregnancy, In pain, shalt thou year children, - Yet, unto thy husband, shall be thy hinging, Though, he, rule over thee.
Webster
To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children: and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
World English Bible
To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
Youngs Literal Translation
Unto the woman He said, 'Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband is thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'
Themes
Afflictions » Consequent upon the fall
Birth » Giving, ordained to be in sorrow
Curse » Denounced » Against adam and eve
Desires » General references to
Fall of man » Punishment consequent upon » Condemnation to labor and sorrow
Husbands' » Have authority over their wives
Man » Punished for disobedience
Men » Men being the head of women
Sin » How sin entered into the world
Sin » Toil and sorrow originated in
Sorrow » General references to
Temptation » Yielding to temptation » Adam
Titles and names of the devil » Serpent
TraVeil » Incident to motherhood
Wife » The judgment denounced against eve
Wives » Duties of, to their husbands » To be subject to them
Women » Characteristics of » Subjection of
Women » Sufferings of » Incident to motherhood
Women » Who is the head of a woman
Women » Why women should not have authority over men
Topics
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 3:16
Prayers for Genesis 3:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Pronounces Judgment
15 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. 16 To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee. 17 And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head is the man, and the Christ's head God.
1 Corinthians 14:34
Let your women be silent in the assemblies, for it is not permitted to them to speak; but to be in subjection, as the law also says.
John 16:21
A woman, when she gives birth to a child, has grief because her hour has come; but when the child is born, she no longer remembers the trouble, on account of the joy that a man has been born into the world.
1 Timothy 2:11-12
Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection;
1 Timothy 2:15
But she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion.
Genesis 4:7
If thou doest well, will not thy countenance look up with confidence? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Ephesians 5:22-24
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
Colossians 3:18
Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Titus 2:5
discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.
Genesis 35:16-18
And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath, when Rachel travailed in childbirth; and it went hard with her in her childbearing.
Numbers 30:7-8
and her husband hear it and be silent at her in the day that he heareth it, then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
Numbers 30:13
Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband can establish it, or her husband can annul it.
1 Samuel 4:19-21
And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered; and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
Esther 1:20
and when the king's edict which he shall make shall be heard throughout his realm for it is great all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, from the greatest to the least.
Psalm 48:6
Trembling took hold upon them there; anguish, as of a woman in travail.
Isaiah 13:8
and they shall be terrified: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them, they shall writhe as a woman that travaileth; they shall be amazed one at another, their faces shall be as flames.
Isaiah 21:3
Therefore are my loins filled with pain; anguish hath taken hold upon me, as the anguish of a woman in travail: I am bowed down so as not to hear, I am dismayed so as not to see.
Isaiah 26:17-18
As a woman with child, that draweth near her delivery, is in travail, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been before thee, Jehovah.
Isaiah 53:11
He shall see of the fruit of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant instruct many in righteousness; and he shall bear their iniquities.
Jeremiah 4:31
For I hear a voice, as of a woman in travail, anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion: she moaneth, she spreadeth forth her hands, saying, Woe unto me! for my soul faileth because of murderers.
Jeremiah 6:24
We have heard the report thereof: our hands are grown feeble; anguish hath taken hold of us, pain as of a woman that travaileth.
Jeremiah 13:21
What wilt thou say when he shall visit thee, since thou thyself hast trained them to be princes in chief over thee? Shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
Jeremiah 22:23
Thou inhabitress of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how pitiful shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, pain as of a woman in travail!
Jeremiah 49:24
Damascus is grown feeble: she turneth herself to flee, and terror hath seized on her; trouble and sorrows have taken hold of her as of a woman in travail.
Micah 4:9-10
Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have seized thee as a woman in travail?
1 Corinthians 7:4
The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
1 Peter 3:1-6
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, that, even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without the word by the conversation of the wives,