“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.””
Genesis 3:16
BSBGo deeper on this verse (3)
- The Fall of Man: The First Promise God Made in the Ruins (Genesis 3)
- Did God Really Say? How the Serpent Bent One Sentence in Genesis 3
Connection with God's warning to Cain
God's warning to Cain in Genesis 4:7 uses almost the same words as this verse, desire and rule: sin desires Cain, and he must master it. The same struggle moved from the garden to a field.
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