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17 To the man he said, “Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree from which I had commanded you not to eat,

“Cursed be the soil because of you!
    With effort you shall obtain food
    all the days of your life.
18 Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth for you,
    and you shall eat of the plants of the field.
19 You shall have to sweat
    to eat your bread
until the day when you return to the earth,
    for from it you were drawn.
You are dust,
    and unto dust you shall return.”

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