Genesis 3:15

And I will put eivah + 3:15 enmity, Midrash Rabbah 23:5 between thee and HaIsha, + 3:15 See HaAlmah, Isa 7:14 1 and between thy zera and her Zera; 1 He shall crush thy rosh, 1 and thou shalt strike His akev (heel).

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

In Context

14And Hashem Elohim said unto the Nachash, 1 Because thou hast done this, 1 thou art arur (cursed) above kol habehemah, 1 and above every beast of the sadeh; 1 upon thy gakhon (belly) shalt thou go, 1 and aphar shalt thou eat 1 all the days of thy life; 1

16Unto HaIsha He said, 1 I will greatly multiply thy itzavon ([labor] pain) and thy childbearing; 1 in pain thou shalt bring forth banim; 1 and thy teshukah (longing, desire) shall be to thy husband, 1 and he shall rule over thee.

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Cross References

Numbers 21:6And Hashem sent fiery nechashim among the people, and they bit the people; and Am rav miYisroel died.

Isaiah 7:14Therefore Adonoi Himself shall give you an ot (sign); Hinei, HaAlmah (the unmarried young virgin) shall conceive, and bear Ben, and shall call Shmo Immanu El (G-d is with us). + 7:14 See extensive commentary in The Translator To The Reader

Isaiah 53:12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, 1 and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; 1 because he hath poured out his nefesh unto mavet (death); 1 and he was numbered with the transgressors; 1 and he nasah + 53:12 Lv 16:22 (bore) [like the Yom Kippur scapegoat] the sin of many, 1 and made intercession + 53:12 did the work of a mafgi'a, intercessor for the transgressors. + 53:12 See Lk 23:34

Daniel 9:26And after threescore and two heptads, yikaret (will be cut off) Moshiach, + 9:26 Isa 53:8 but not for himself; + 9:26 Isa 53:4-6,8 and the troops of the coming nagid shall destroy the Ir and the Kodesh [Beis Hamikdash]; + 9:26 i.e., 70.C.E and the end thereof shall come with a flood, and unto the end there shall be war. Desolations are determined.

Micah 5:3And He + 5:3 Moshiach shall stand and shall shepherd in the strength of Hashem, 1 in the majesty of the Shem of Hashem Elohav, 1 and they + 5:3 Bnei Yisroel shall live; 1 for then shall He + 5:3 Moshiach be great unto the ends of ha'aretz. 1

Matthew 1:25And Yosef + 1:25 ben Dovid did not know her until she bore BEN and Yosef + 1:25 Ben Dovid called him by name of Yehoshua. + 1:25 Ben Dovid + 1:25 See Baba Bathra 8:6

Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:15-16

Sentence Passed on the Serpent; Intimation of Messiah. ( b. c. 4004.) 14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. The prisoners being found guilty by their own confession, besides the personal… Read the whole commentary →

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