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Genesis 3:17
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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. 
19 aIn the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
bFor dust you are,
And cto dust you shall return.”  
20 And Adam called his wife’s name aEve, because she was the mother of all living.  
21 Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Genesis 3:17

Unto Adam he said - The man being the last in the transgression is brought up last to receive his sentence: Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife - "thou wast not deceived, she only gave and counseled thee to eat; this thou shouldst have resisted;" and that he did not is the reason of his condemnation. Cursed is the ground for thy sake - from henceforth its fertility shall be greatly impaired; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it - be in continual perplexity concerning the seed time and the harvest, the cold and the heat, the wet and the dry. How often are all the fruits of man' s toll destroyed by blasting, by mildew, by insects, wet weather, land floods, etc.! Anxiety and carefulness are the laboring man' s portion.




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