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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.

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

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

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

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