Then the Lord God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all the animals, domestic and wild. You will crawl on your belly, groveling in the dust as long as you live. And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heal.”
Then He said to the woman,
“I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, in and in pain you will give birth. And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.”
And He said to the man,
“Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it. It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains. By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground fro which you were made. For you were made form dust, and to dust you will return.” (vv. 4-19, NLT)