The Literal Meaning of Genesis
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14. The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle and above all beasts upon the earth. Upon your breast and your belly shall you go, and earth shall you eat all the days of your life.
14. Et dixit Dominus Deus serpenti: Quia fecisti hoc, maledictus tu ab omnibus pecoribus et ab omnibus bestiis quae sunt super terram. Super pectus tuum et ventrem tuum ambulabis et terram edes omnes dies vitae tuae.
15. And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. She will lie
15. Et inimicitias ponam inter te et inter mulierem et inter semen tuum et inter semen eius. Ipsa tibi servabit caput, et tu servabis eius calcaneum. in wait for your head, and you will lie in wait for her heel."
16. To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply your sorrows and your anguish. With sorrows you shall bring forth children, and you shall be subject to your husband, and he shall rule over you."
16. Et mulieri dixit: Multiplicans multiplicabo tristitias tuas et gemitum tuum. In tristitiis paries filios, et ad virum tuum conversio tua, et ipse tui dominabitur.
17. And to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the one tree whereof I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the earth in your works. In sorrow you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
17. Adae autem dixit: Quia audisti vocem mulieris tuae et edisti de ligno de quo praeceperam tibi de eo solo non edere, maledicta terra in operibus tuis; in tristitiis edes illam omnes dies vitae tuae;
18. thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the crops of the field.
18. spinas et tribulos edet tibi, et edes fenum agri.
19, In the sweat of your face you shall eat your bread until you return
19. In sudore faciei tuae edes panem tuum, donec convertaris in terram, to the earth from which you have been taken, for you are earth and unto earth you shall return." ex qua sumtus es, quia terra es et in terram ibis.
20. Adam called his wife's name "Life," for she is the mother of all the living.
20. Et vocavit Adam nomen mulieris suae "Vita" quoniam haec est mater omnium viventium.
21. And the Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
21. Et fecit Dominus Deus Adam et mulieri eius tunicas pelliceas et induit eos.
22. Et dixit Dominus Deus: Ecce Adam factus est tamquam unus ex nobis in cognoscendo bonum et malum. Et nunc ne aliquando extendat manum et sumat de ligno vitae et edat et vivat in aeternum.
22. And the Lord God said, ''Behold, Adam has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now let him not put forth his hand and take of the fruit of the tree of life and eat and live forever."