Genesis 3:15

Genesis 3:15

13 And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, ^a“The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent:
“Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And ^ayou shall eat dust
All the days of your life.

15 And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between ^ayour seed and ^bher Seed;
^cHe shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”

16 To the woman He said:
“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;
^aIn pain you shall bring forth children;
^bYour desire shall be¹ for your husband,
And he shall ^crule over you.”

17 Then to Adam He said, ^a“Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree ^bof which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:
^c“Cursed is the ground for your sake;
^dIn toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.

18 Both thorns and thistles it shall¹ bring forth for you,
And ^ayou shall eat the herb of the field.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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thy seed—not only evil spirits, but wicked men.

seed of the woman—the Messiah, or His Church [CALVIN, HENGSTENBERG].

I will put enmity between thee and the woman—God can only be said to do so by leaving "the serpent and his seed to the influence of their own corruption; and by those measures which, pursued for the salvation of men, fill Satan and his angels with envy and rage."

thou shalt bruise his heel—The serpent wounds the heel that crushes him; and so Satan would be permitted to afflict the humanity of Christ and bring suffering and persecution on His people.

it shall bruise thy head—The serpent's poison is lodged in its head; and a bruise on that part is fatal. Thus, fatal shall be the stroke which Satan shall receive from Christ, though it is probable he did not at first understand the nature and extent of his doom.

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Genesis 3:15:**

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Daniel 7:13
Micah 5:2
Matthew 13:39
Romans 16:20
1 Corinthians 15:55
Galatians 3:29
1 Timothy 2:14
1 Timothy 2:15
Hebrews 11:4
Jude 1:14

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