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Genesis 3:14–19 — Judgment and Consequences · A Tithe of Time Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to a tithe of time, verse by verse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we begin reading from the ESV, Genesis 3, 14 to 19, Judgment and Consequences.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field.
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  SPEAKER_00: On your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring.
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  SPEAKER_00: He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.
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  SPEAKER_00: To the woman he said, I will surely multiply your pain and childbearing.
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  SPEAKER_00: In pain you shall bring forth children.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to Adam he said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, you shall not eat of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cursed is the ground because of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: In pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.
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  SPEAKER_00: By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken, for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's look closer.
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  SPEAKER_00: God first addresses the serpent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Unlike Adam and the woman, the serpent is not asked another question here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Judgment begins immediately, because you have done this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then God says, I will put enmity between you and the woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Enmity means deep hostility or opposition between two sides.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that hostility does not stop with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: The passage continues, between your offspring and her offspring.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then comes one of the most discussed lines in Genesis.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the most basic level, the picture is of ongoing conflict in which the serpent strikes the heel while the serpent's head is struck.
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  SPEAKER_00: Christians have also traditionally understood this as an early glimpse of a later victory over evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: That larger connection becomes clearer as the biblical story continues, but Genesis itself gives us the image here before explaining where it will ultimately lead.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep this in mind, it matters later.
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  SPEAKER_00: God then turns to the woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: The pain connected with childbearing is multiplied, and the relationship between husband and wife is now described in terms that were absent from Genesis 2.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something that had been presented as unity without shame will now be marked by struggle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then God addresses Adam.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice exactly why.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, you shall not eat of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The issue is not simply that Adam listened to his wife.
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  SPEAKER_00: The sentence itself identifies the disobedience.
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  SPEAKER_00: He listened and ate what God had specifically commanded him not to eat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Adam himself is not called cursed in this passage.
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  SPEAKER_00: The text says, Cursed is the ground because of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: That distinction matters.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ground from which Adam was formed will now resist him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Work existed before the fall, but now work is joined by pain, thorns, thistles, and sweat.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the final consequence reaches back to Adam's creation.
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  SPEAKER_00: God had formed him from dust from the ground.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now he says, For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
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  SPEAKER_00: Death, which had been warned about before the fruit was eaten, is now spoken directly over Adam's future.
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  SPEAKER_00: This passage shows the consequences spreading outward conflict, pain, broken relationships, difficulty in the ground, and finally death.
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  SPEAKER_00: This concludes Genesis 3 14 to 19.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next, we'll continue with Genesis 3 20 to 24.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember, tithe your time.