Genesis 3:18

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Genesis 3:18

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

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KJV

King James Version

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

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WEB

World English Bible

It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

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ASV

American Standard Version

thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

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Genesis 3

¹⁶ To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

¹⁷ And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

¹⁸ Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

¹⁹ By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

²⁰ And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.

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