“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.”
Genesis 3:17
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- 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 grief in Genesis 6
Toil here shares its Hebrew root with the word for God's grief in Genesis 6:6. The same root names the woman's pain in childbirth. The pain God laid on a fallen world in Genesis 3 became the pain God Himself carried in Genesis 6.
Read the whole studyConnection with Noah, a man of the soil
Genesis calls Noah "a man of the soil" (Genesis 9:20), literally a man of the adamah, the ground Adam was made from and the ground cursed here. In Noah's tent the fall happened again, with ground, fruit, nakedness and shame, this time in the one righteous man the flood spared.
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Creation subjected to frustration in Adam — liberated through Christ
“For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope”
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