Genesis 3:14-19
God judges sin justly while revealing the beginning of His redemptive purpose.
14 Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
15 I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
17 To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
18 It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
19 You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
God judges sin justly while revealing the beginning of His redemptive purpose.
To declare God's righteous judgment in response to sin, outlining consequences for the serpent, the woman, and the man, while introducing the first promise of ultimate victory over evil.
Humanity Rebels Against God, Falls Under Curse, and Receives the First Hope of Redemption
When humanity rejected God’s word in pursuit of autonomous wisdom, sin, shame, curse, and death entered the world, yet God answered rebellion with righteous judgment and the first promise of redemptive victory.