Genesis 3:17-18

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17} Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;

^(A)Cursed is the ground because of you;
^(B)In ^(a)toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.

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18}

“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you will eat the ^(b)plants of the field;

Footnotes:

a. Genesis 3:17: ['Or ', sorrow]

b. Genesis 3:18: ['Lit ', plant]

Cross references:

A. Genesis 3:17: Genesis 5:29; Romans 8:20-22; Hebrews 6:8

B. Genesis 3:17: Job 5:7; Job 14:1