And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
(Genesis 3:17-19) KJV
The curse on Adam was the curse on the Earth, though this shouldn’t be a surprise since Adam’s name and the Hebrew word translated ground have the same root and they’re practically the same thing. Adam is the ground, it’s what he’s made of.
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