17 And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.(A)
You will eat from it by means of painful labor[a]
all the days of your life.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:17 Lit it through pain

29 And he named him Noah,[a] saying, “This one will bring us relief from the agonizing labor of our hands, caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 5:29 In Hb, the name Noah sounds like the phrase “bring us relief.”

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