Genesis 3:17-20

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.
¹⁹ By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
_o for you are dust,
and _p to dust you shall return."

²⁰ The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. ₁

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?
   
4. Cross References
   Genesis 2:7
   Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
   Psalms 103:14
   For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
   
5. Cross References
   Job 34:15
   All flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.
   Psalms 104:29
   When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
   Ecclesiastes 3:20
   All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.
   Ecclesiastes 12:7
   And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
   Romans 5:12
   Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned -