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Genesis 3:14 - 3:15 - 3:16 - 3:17 - 3:18 - 3:19

3:14. And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because you have done this thing, you are cursed among all the cattle and beasts of the earth: upon your breast shall you go, and earth shall you eat all the days of your life.

3:15. I will put enmities between you and the woman, and your seed and her seed: she shall crush your head, and you shall lie in wait for her heel.

She shall crush. . .Ipsa, the woman; so diverse of the fathers read this place, conformably to the Latin: others read it ipsum, viz., the seed. The sense is the same: for it is by her seed, Jesus Christ, that the woman crushes the serpent's head.

3:16. To the woman also he said: I will multiply your sorrows, and your conceptions: in sorrow shalt you bring forth children, and you shalt be under your husband's power, and he shall have dominion over you.

3:17. And to Adam he said: Because you have hearkened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded you, that you should not eat, cursed is the earth in your work: with labor and toil shalt you eat thereof all the days of your life.

3:18. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, and you shalt eat the herbs of the earth.

3:19. In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread till you return to the earth out of which you were taken: for dust you are, and into dust you shall return.