The Punishment of Mankind

To the woman He said:

“I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth;

in pain you will bring forth children.

Your desire [will be] for your husband,[fn]

and he will rule over you.”

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And to Adam He said:

“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife

and have eaten from the tree

of which I commanded you not to eat

cursed [is] the ground because of you;

through toil you will eat [of] it

all the days of your life.

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Both thorns and thistles it {will} yield for you,

and you {will} eat the plants of the field.

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By the sweat of your brow

you will eat [your] bread,

until you return to the ground —

because out of it were you taken.

For dust you [are],

and to dust you {shall} return.”

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And Adam vvv named his wife Eve,[fn] because she would be the mother of all the living.

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