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Genesis 3:18

Thorns and thistles shall it produce for you, and you shall eat the plants of the earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

In Context

17Yet truly, to Adam, he said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, from which I instructed you that you should not eat, cursed is the land that you work. In hardship shall you eat from it, all the days of your life.

19By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return.”

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Cross References

Job 1:21and he said, “Naked I departed from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Just as it pleased the Lord, so has it been done. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 31:40then, may thistles spring forth for me instead of grain, and thorns instead of barley. (This ended the words of Job.)

Psalms 104:2Sing to him, and sing psalms to him. Describe all his wonders.

Proverbs 22:5Weapons and swords are on the way of the perverse. But he who guards his own soul withdraws far from them.

Isaiah 5:6And I will make it desolate. It will not be pruned, and it will not be dug. And briers and thorns will rise up. And I will command the clouds not to rain upon it.

Isaiah 7:24They will enter such places with arrows and bows. For briers and thorns will be throughout the entire land.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:18-20

Sentence Passed on Adam; Consequences of the Fall. ( b. c. 4004.) 17 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; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

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