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Genesis 3:18 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. "

Genesis 3:18

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16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

17 To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and have eaten from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

18 It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

19 You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

20 The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

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Genesis 3:1

"Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”"

Genesis 3:2

"The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,"

Genesis 3:3

"but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”"

Genesis 3:4

"The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,"

Genesis 3:5

"for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”"

Genesis 3:6

"When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too."

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