Genesis 3:16

Unto 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.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

15And 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).

17And unto Adam He said, 1 Because thou paid heed unto the voice of thy isha, 1 and hast eaten of HaEtz, 1 of which I commanded thee, saying, 1 Thou shalt not eat of it, 1 arurah (cursed) is haadamah because of thee; 1 in itzavon + 3:17 itzavon see verse 16 (pain, suffering) shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 1

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Cross References

Genesis 4:7If thou doest right, shalt thou not be accepted? And if thou doest not right, chattat is lurking at the petach. And unto thee shall be its teshukah (desire), and thou must rule over it.

Numbers 30:7And if she had at all an ish, when she made nedarim or utterance of her lips, wherewith she bound her nefesh;

1 Samuel 4:19And his kallah (daughter-in-law), eshet Pinchas, was with child, near to be delivered; and when she heard the tidings that the Aron HaElohim was captured, and that her kham (womanʼs father-in-law) and her ish were dead, she fell upon her knees in labor and gave birth; for her labor pains came upon her.

Esther 1:20And when the edict of HaMelech which he shall make shall be published throughout all his Malkhut (realm) — for it is great — all the nashim (women, wives) shall give to their be'alim (husbands) yekar (honor, respect), both to gadol and katan.

Isaiah 13:8And they shall be afraid; 1 pangs and chavalim (pains) shall take hold of them; 1 they shall be in pain like a woman that travaileth in childbirth; 1 one shall be aghast at his re'a; 1 their faces shall be like flaming visages. 1

Isaiah 26:17Like a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, 1 in travail, and crieth out in her pangs; 1 so have we been in Thy sight, Hashem. 1

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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