Genesis 3:18

It will yield thorns and thistles + 3:18. Quoted in Heb 6:8 to you; 2 and you will eat the herb of the field. 1

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In The King James Version

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

In Context

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

19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you teshuvah ·complete return· to the ground, 2 for out of it you were taken. 1 For you are dust, 2 and to dust you shall made teshuvah ·complete return·.”

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Cross References

Psalms 104:2He covers himself with light as with a garment. 2 He stretches out the heavens like a curtain. 1

Proverbs 22:5Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: 2 whoever guards his soul stays from them. 1

Isaiah 5:6I will lay it a wasteland. 2 It won’t be pruned nor hoed, 2 but it will grow briers and thorns. 2 I will also enjoin the clouds that they rain no rain on it.” 1

Isaiah 7:24People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:18-20

Sentence Passed on Adam; Consequences of the Fall. ( b. c. 4004.) 17 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; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for… Read the whole commentary →

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