Genesis 3:16

To 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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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

15I 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.”

17To Adam he said, 1 “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, 1 and have eaten from the tree, concerning which I commanded you, 1 saying, 'You may not eat from it,' 1 cursed is the ground because of you; 1 through painful work you will eat from it all the days of your life. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 4:7If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin crouches at the door and desires to control you, but you must rule over it.”

Numbers 30:7If she marries a man while she is under those vows, or if she makes rash promises with which she obligates herself, those obligations will remain in force.

1 Samuel 4:19Now his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news that the ark of God was captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she knelt down and gave birth, but her labor pains overwhelmed her.

Esther 1:20When the king's decree is proclaimed throughout all his vast kingdom, all the wives will honor their husbands, from the greatest to the least significant.”

Isaiah 13:8They will be terrified; pain and agony will seize them, like a woman in labor. 1 They will look in astonishment at one another; their faces will be aflame. 1

Isaiah 26:17As a pregnant woman nears the time for her to give birth, 1 when she is in pain and cries out in her labor pains, 1 so we have been before you, Lord. 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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