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To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
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A New, Painful Reality
Commentators agree that the woman's sentence involves two key consequences: pain in childbearing and a change in the marital dynamic. Scholars like Calvin and Gill suggest that the fall distorted what might have been a gentle, harmonious order into a relationship of difficult subjection. Her independent action in the transgression resulted in her being placed under her husband's rule.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
שׁוּף shûp “bruise, wound.” τηρεῖν (= τερεῖν ?) tērein ἐκτρίβειν ektribein …
19th Century
Anglican
EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE.
The Bereshit Rabba argues that Adam and Eve re…
Baptist
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall …
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16th Century
Protestant
Unto the woman he said. So that the majesty of the judge may shine more brightly, God uses no lengthy debate; from this we may also percei…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Unto the woman he said The woman receives her sentence next to the serpent, and before the man, because she was firs…
The woman, for her sin, is condemned to a state of sorrow and of subjection—proper punishments for that sin, in which she had sought to gratify the…
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