Genesis 3:13-21 BSB

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:16

Genesis 3:16. We have here the sentence passed on the woman: she is condemned to a state of sorrow and subjection: proper punishments of a sin in which she had gratified her pleasure and her pride. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow In divers pains and infirmities peculiar to thy sex; and thy conception Thou shalt have many, and those oft-times fruitless conceptions and abortive births. In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children With more pain than any other creatures undergo in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:17

Genesis 3:17. Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife Obeyed her word and counsel, contrary to my express command. He excused the fault by laying it on his wife, but God doth not admit the excuse: though it was her fault to persuade him to eat, it was his fault to hearken to her. Cursed is the ground for thy sake It shall now yield both fewer and worse fruits, and not even those without more care and trouble to thy mind, and the minds of thy posterity, and more labour to... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:19

Genesis 3:19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread His business, before he sinned, was a constant pleasure to him; but now his labour shall be a weariness. Unto dust shalt thou return Thy body shall be forsaken by thy soul, and become itself a lump of dust, and then it shall be lodged in the grave, and mingle with the dust of the earth. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:20

Genesis 3:20. God having named the man, and called him Adam, which signifies red earth; Adam, in further token of dominion, named the woman, and called her Eve, that is, life. Thus Adam bears the name of the dying body, Eve, of the living soul. Though for her sin she was justly sentenced to a present death, yet, by God’s infinite mercy, and by virtue of the promised seed, she was both continued in life herself, and made the mother of all living. Adam had before called her Isha,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:21

Genesis 3:21. Unto Adam and his wife did God make By his own word, or by the ministry of angels; coats of skins Of beasts slain, either to show them what death is, or rather, as is more probable, in sacrifice to God, to prefigure the great sacrifice which, in the latter days, should be offered once for all. Thus the first animal that died was a sacrifice, or Christ in a figure. God clothed them: 1st, to defend them from the heat and cold, and other injuries of the air to which they... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:1-24

Human disobedience (3:1-24)Since human beings were made in God’s image, and since God was unlimited, the first human couple soon showed that they too wanted to be unlimited. They had to remember, however, that they were not God; they were only creatures made in the image of God. Just as the image of the moon on the water could not exist independently of the moon, so they could not exist independently of God. Their relationship with God contained an element of dependence, or limitation, and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 3:13

The serpent. See note on Genesis 3:1 and App-19 ; and compare 2 Corinthians 11:3 , 2 Corinthians 11:14 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 3:14

said. God asks the serpent no question. There is no parley. Sentence at once pronounced. upon thy belly, &c. Figure of speech. See App-19 . The words imply the utmost humiliation, as in Psalms 44:25 . dust, &c. Figure of speech of utter defeat, as in Psalms 72:9 . See App-19 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 3:15

it. i.e. Christ. The corruption of this in the Vulgate into "she" lies at the root of Mariolatry: the verb in singular. Masculine shows that zer'a (seed) is here to be taken in singular, with Septuagint, i.e. Christ ; see note on Genesis 17:7 ; Genesis 21:12 , and Galatians 1:3 , Galatians 1:16 . head . . . heel. See App-19 . No more literal than 1 Corinthians 11:8 , or Psalms 41:9 , and John 13:18 . They denote the temporary sufferings of the Seed, and the complete destruction of Satan and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 3:16

greatly multiply. Hebrew "multiplying I will multiply". Figure of speech Polyptoton . Emph. Preserved in word "greatly". Compare Genesis 3:4 , and see note on Genesis 26:28 . in sorrow. Compare 1 Timothy 2:14 , 1 Timothy 2:15 . children. Hebrew = sons; but daughters included by context. to = subject to. Childbearing was not brought into this for eating an apple. read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:16

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:17

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:19

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:20

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 3:21

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 3:1-24

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 3:13

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 3:14

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 3:15

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 3:16

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