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16 To the woman he said:

I will intensify your toil in childbearing;
    in pain[a] you shall bring forth children.
Yet your urge shall be for your husband,
    and he shall rule over you.

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  1. 3:16 Toil…pain: the punishment affects the woman directly by increasing the toil and pain of having children. He shall rule over you: the punishment also affects the woman’s relationship with her husband. A tension is set up in which her urge (either sexual urge or, more generally, dependence for sustenance) is for her husband but he rules over her. But see Sg 7:11.