Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed, he shall + 3:15 Gr. keep. Other readings of the passage are πλήξει and πλήξεις and τειρήσει and τειρήσεις. See Parkhurst in שֵׁנִי‏ watch against your head, and you shall + 3:15 Gr. keep. Other readings of the passage are πλήξει and πλήξεις and τειρήσει and τειρήσεις. See Parkhurst in שֵׁנִי‏ watch against his heel.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 the Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this you are cursed above all cattle and all the brutes of the earth, on your breast and belly you shall go, and you shall eat earth all the days of your life.

16And to the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your pains and your groanings; in pain you shall bring forth children, and your submission + 3:16 Gr. turning. shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you.

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Cross References

Numbers 21:6And the Lord sent among the people deadly serpents, and they bit the people, and much people of the children of Israel died.

Isaiah 7:14Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; + 7:14 Matt 1:23 behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and you shall call his name Emmanuel.

Isaiah 53:12Therefore he shall inherit many, and he shall divide the spoils of the mighty; because his soul was delivered to death: and + 53:12 Mark 15:28 he was numbered among the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and was delivered because of their iniquities.

Daniel 9:26And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one shall be destroyed, and there is no judgment in him: and he shall destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming: they shall be cut off with a flood, and to the end of the war which is rapidly completed he shall appoint the city to desolations.

Micah 5:3Therefore shall he appoint them to wait till the time of her that travails: she shall bring forth, and then the remnant of their brethren shall return to the children of Israel.

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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