Genesis 3:17-19

17 Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; ¹Cursed is the ground because of you; ²In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life.

18 "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field;

19 By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you ³return to the ground, Because ⁴from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."

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Genesis 3:17-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 3

In this chapter an account is given of the temptation of our first parents, of the instrument of it, and of their fall into it, and of the effect of it, Ge 3:1-7 their summons upon it to appear before God, against whom they had sinned, Ge 3:8-10 their examination by him, and the excuses they made, Ge 3:11-13 the various sentences passed of the serpent, the woman, and the man, Ge 3:14-19 some incidental things recorded, expressive of faith and hope in man, and of favour to him, Ge 3:20,21 and his expulsion from the garden of Eden, Ge 3:22-24.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 4

1. Genesis 5:29; Romans 8:20-22; Hebrews 6:8
2. Job 5:7; Job 14:1; Ecclesiastes 2:23
3. Psalms 90:3; Psalms 104:29; Ecclesiastes 12:7
4. Genesis 2:7

Footnotes 2

[a]. Or "sorrow"
[b]. Lit "plant"