Genesis 3:17 meaning and explanation
And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:17, Berean Standard Bible
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God speaks these words to the man in the garden after the first disobedience, and the sentence falls on the ground rather than on Adam himself. The phrase "because you have listened to the voice of your wife" is not a rebuke of marriage but of heeding her voice over God's clear command, since Adam ate what God had forbidden.
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