Genesis 3:17
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 be the ground for thy sake; in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
18And thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herbs of the field.
Cross References
Genesis 3:6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.
Genesis 5:29And he called his name Noach, [[Noah,]] saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.
Job 5:6For wrong doth not come forth out of the dust, neither doth trouble grow up out of the ground;
Job 14:1Man born of a woman is short of days, and sated with harrowing trouble.
Psalms 90:7For [thus] are we consumed by thy anger, and by thy fury are we terrified.
Ecclesiastes 1:2Vanity of vanities, saith Koheleth, vanity of vanities: all is vanity.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:17
Sentence Passed on Eve. ( b. c. 4004.) 16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. We have here the sentence passed upon the woman for her sin. Two things she is condemned to: a state of sorrow, and a state of subjection, proper punishments of a sin in which she had gratified her pleasure and her pride. I. She is here put into a state of sorrow, one particular of… Read the whole commentary →