Genesis 3:17

To Adam he said, ‘Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and ate from the tree about which I ordered you: “You must never eat from it” the ground will be cursed because of you; as long as you live, you will earn a living only by anguished toil.

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In The King James Version

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;

In Context

16To the woman he said, ‘I will greatly increase your anguished toil in pregnancy; with pain will you bear children. You will yearn for your husband, but he will rule over you.’

18The ground will always bring forth thorns and thistles, and you will eat the plants of the field.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, attractive to look at and desirable for acquiring wisdom, she took some of its fruit and ate. Then she gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

Genesis 5:29He named him Noah, saying: ‘He will bring us relief from our work and the toil of our hands which comes from the ground the Lord cursed.’

Psalms 90:7For your anger consumes us, the heat of your wrath confounds us.

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 →

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