Genesis 3:17

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Summary

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And hast

Genesis 3:6

Genesis 2:16

Jeremiah 7:23

Cursed

In sorrow

John 16:33

General references

Mark 4:7

Bible References

And hast

And the woman seeth that the tree is good for food, and that it is pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make one wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat;

And Jehovah God layeth a charge on the man, saying, 'Of every tree of the garden eating thou dost eat;

But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And ye -- ye are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.

Cursed

and calleth his name Noah, saying, 'This one doth comfort us concerning our work, and concerning the labour of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed.'

Vain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep.

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.

and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.

for to vanity was the creation made subject -- not of its will, but because of Him who did subject it -- in hope,

In sorrow

For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.

Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!

How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.

For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.

For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.'

General references

and other fell toward the thorns, and the thorns did come up, and choke it, and fruit it gave not;