Genesis 3:17-18

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17} And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.^(A)
You will eat from it by means of painful labor^(a)
all the days of your life.

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It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.^(B)

a. Genesis 3:17: Lit it through pain

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

B. Genesis 3:18: Genesis 2:5