Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it only not to eat—of that thou hast eaten, cursed is the ground in thy labors, in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
18Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
Cross References
Genesis 3:6And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate.
Genesis 5:29And he called his name Noah, saying, This one will cause us to cease from our works, and from the toils of our hands, and from the earth, which the Lord God has cursed.
Job 5:6For labor cannot by any means come out of the earth, 1 Nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains: 1
Job 14:1For a mortal born of a woman is short-lived, and full of wrath. 1
Psalms 90:7A thousand shall fall at thy side, 1 And ten thousand at thy right hand; 1 But it shall not come nigh thee. 1
Ecclesiastes 1:2Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, 1 Vanity of vanities; all is vanity. 1
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 →