Genesis 3:17-18

The Fall

¹⁷ And to Adam he said,
"Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
_l of which I commanded you,
'You shall not eat of it,'
_m cursed is the ground because of you;
_n in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
¹⁸ thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
and you shall eat the plants of the field.

1. Cross References
   Genesis 2:17
   But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
   
2. Cross References
   Genesis 5:29
   And called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.
   Romans 8:20 - 22
   For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
   
3. Cross References
   Ecclesiastes 2:22 - 23
   What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?