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17 To the man he said: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, You shall not eat from it,

Cursed is the ground[a] because of you!
    In toil you shall eat its yield
    all the days of your life.(A)
18 Thorns and thistles it shall bear for you,
    and you shall eat the grass of the field.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:17–19 Cursed is the ground: the punishment affects the man’s relationship to the ground (’adam and ’adamah). You are dust: the punishment also affects the man directly insofar as he is now mortal.

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’(A)

“Cursed(B) is the ground(C) because of you;
    through painful toil(D) you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.(E)
18 It will produce thorns and thistles(F) for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.(G)

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16 (A)By their fruits you will know them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

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16 By their fruit you will recognize them.(A) Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?(B)

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Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it.

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Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants.

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Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it and it produced no grain.

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Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.

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Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it.

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Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants.

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