Genesis 3:14–19

¹⁴Then^q Yahweh God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this,

you will be cursed

more than any domesticated animal

and more than any wild animal.^r

On your belly you shall go

and dust you shall eat

all the days of your life.

¹⁵And I will put hostility

between you and between the woman,

and between your offspring^s and between her offspring;^t

he will strike you on the head,

and you will strike him on the heel.”

¹⁶To the woman he said,

“I will greatly increase

your pain in childbearing;^u

in pain you shall bear children.

And to your husband shall be your desire.

And he shall rule over you.”

¹⁷And to Adam^v he said, “Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree from which I forbade you to eat,^w

the ground shall be cursed on your account.

In pain you shall eat from it

all the days of your life.

¹⁸And thorns and thistles shall sprout for you,

and you shall eat the plants of the field.

¹⁹By the sweat of your brow^x

you shall eat bread,

until your return to the ground.

For from it you were taken;

for you are dust,

and to dust you shall return.”