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17 And he said to the man, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, “Do not eat from it”:

The ground is cursed because of you.(A)
You will eat from it by means of painful labour[a]
all the days of your life.

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  1. 3:17 Lit it through pain

29 And he named him Noah,[a] saying, ‘This one will bring us relief from the agonising labour of our hands, caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.’(A)

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  1. 5:29 In Hb, the name Noah sounds like ‘bring us relief.’