Genesis 3:18
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.
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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
- KJV
- Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
- WEB
- It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
- ASV
- thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
- DARBY
- and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
- BLB
- and thorn and thistle it will cause to grow for you, and you shall eat the vegetation of the field.
- ÅB
- Torner og tistler skal den bære deg, og du skal spise urtene på marken.
- OTB
- Den skal bære torner og tistler for deg, og du skal spise av markens vekster.
- B1930
- Torner og tistler skal den bære dig, og du skal ete urtene på marken.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 5:5
The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
Read in contextMatthew 13:7
Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the seedlings.
Read in contextIsaiah 7:23
And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
Read in contextPsalms 104:14–15
He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
Read in contextProverbs 22:5
Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.
Read in contextIsaiah 5:6
I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
Read in contextIsaiah 32:13
and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
Read in contextJeremiah 4:3
For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
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