01 Gen 3.14-19 The Curse pronounced

Five things/persons were cursed: snakes, Lucifer, women, men, and the earth

Genesis 3:14–19 (ESV)

14The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

15I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

16To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”

17And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

18thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.

19By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

One method of counting results in 11 curses:

On snakes:

(1) Most cursed of all livestock

(2) Enmity against women

(3) Forced to slither on the ground

On Lucifer:

(4) Will be killed by a male offspring of Eve

On women:

(5) Painful childbirth

(6) Competitive spirit with her husband experienced as a desire to rule over him.

(7) Subservience to her husband, e.g. loss of the “co-regency” status

(8) Death

On men:

(9) Difficulty obtaining food from the land, requiring hard lifelong effort.

(10) Death

On the earth:

(11) Decreased productivity. Romans 8.20-21 calls this “bondage to corruption.”