Genesis 3:15

I will put hostility between you and the woman, 1 and between your seed and her seed. 1 He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

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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

14Yahweh God said to the serpent, 1 “Because you have done this, 1 cursed are you alone among all the livestock 1 and all the beasts of the field. 1 It is on your stomach that you will go, 1 and it is dust that you will eat all the days of your life. 1

16To the woman he said, 1 “I will greatly multiply your pain in having children; 1 it is in pain that you will give birth to children. 1 Your desire will be for your husband, but he will rule over you.”

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Cross References

Numbers 21:6Then Yahweh sent poisonous snakes among the people. The snakes bit the people; many people died.

Isaiah 7:14Therefore the Lord himself will give you people a sign: See, the young woman will conceive, bear a son, and will call his name Immanuel. + 7:14 Instead of the young woman , some versions have a young woman .

Isaiah 53:12Therefore will I give him his portion among the multitudes, and he will divide the spoils with the many, 1 because he exposed himself to death and was numbered with the transgressors. 1 He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

Daniel 9:26After the sixty-two sevens, the anointed one will be destroyed and will have nothing. The army of a coming ruler will destroy the city and the holy place. Its end will come with a flood, and there will be war even to the end. Desolations have been decreed.

Micah 5:3Therefore God will give them up, 1 until the time when she who is in labor bears a child, 1 and the rest of his brothers return to the people of Israel. 1

Matthew 1:25But he did not have sexual relations with her until she gave birth to a son. Then he called his name Jesus.

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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