Genesis 3:14

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

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  • Isa 65:25 : 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain," says Yahweh.
  • Mic 7:17 : 17 They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.
  • Ps 72:9 : 9 Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.
  • Isa 29:4 : 4 You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.
  • Gen 3:1 : 1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
  • Gen 9:6 : 6 Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
  • Exod 21:28-32 : 28 "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible. 29 But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death. 30 If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him. 31 Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him. 32 If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
  • Lev 20:25 : 25 "'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.
  • Deut 28:15-20 : 15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you. 16 You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field. 17 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed. 18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed. 19 You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed when you go out. 20 Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

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  • Gen 3:11-13
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    82%

    11God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

    12The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."

    13Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

  • Gen 3:15-19
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    15I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."

    16To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

    17To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

    18Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

    19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

  • Gen 3:1-6
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    1Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"

    2The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,

    3but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"

    4The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,

    5for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

    6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.

  • Gen 4:11-12
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    71%

    11Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

    12From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."

  • Gen 3:22-23
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    22Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."

    23Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

  • Deut 28:16-20
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    16You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field.

    17Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed.

    18The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed.

    19You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed when you go out.

    20Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

  • Jer 8:17
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    17For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.

  • Gen 4:7
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    7If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."

  • Ps 91:13
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    13You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

  • Lev 11:41-42
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    41"'Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.

    42Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

  • Exod 4:3
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    3He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.

  • Job 1:11
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    11But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face."

  • Job 2:5
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    5But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face."

  • Gen 2:17
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    17but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."

  • Job 20:16
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    16He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

  • Gen 4:14-15
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    14Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."

    15Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.

  • Gen 12:3
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    3I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you."

  • Prov 23:32
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    32In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

  • Mic 7:17
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    17They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.

  • Job 1:7
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    7Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."

  • Rev 12:15
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    15The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.

  • Nah 3:15
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    15There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

  • Amos 9:3
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    3Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

  • Gen 9:2
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    2The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.

  • Gen 49:17
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    17Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.

  • Isa 14:29
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    29Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.