Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said, 1 “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. 2 In pain you will bear children. 1 Your desire will be for your husband, 2 and he will have authority over you.”

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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

15+ 3:15 a MP: Enmity between “Thy seed and her seed” Women have ovum, not seed as males, therefore this is a miraculous birth. (Luke 1:35 with John 12:31) I will put hostility between you and the woman, 2 and between your offspring and her offspring. 1 + 3:15 b MP: Messiah’s heels bruise the serpent’s head. The serpent retaliates, but is hurled down from power. (John 12:31-33; Heb 2:14-15; Rev 12:10, 20:1-3) He will bruise your head, 2 and you will bruise his heel.”

17To Adam [Human, Red earth] he said, 1 “Because you have sh'ma ·hear obey· your wife’s voice, 2 and ate from the tree, 2 about which I enjoined you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ 2 the ground is cursed for your sake. 1 You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life. 2

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Cross References

Genesis 4:7If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, habitual sin ·missing the mark· crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

Numbers 30:7and her husband sh'ma ·hears obeys· it, and hold his peace at her in the day that he sh'ma ·hears obeys· it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

Isaiah 13:8They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

Isaiah 26:17Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Adonai.

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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