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. SIKAND-GÛMÂNÎK VIGÂR.
and the panting of the nostrils, (39) until the end of thy life; (40) and thy land shall grow all bodily refuse and dung 1' 41. He also spoke to Eve thus : 'Thy pregnancy shall be in pain and uneasy, and thy bringing forth in grievous hastening?' 42. And he spoke to the serpent thus: “Thou shalt be accursed from amid the quadrupeds and wild animals of the plain and mountain ; (43) for thee also there shall be no feet, (44) and thy movement shall be on thy belly, and thy food dust. 45. And betwixt thy offspring, with those of the woman, there shall be such hatred and conversion to enmity that they will wound the head of that offspring 3.'
46. This, too, they say, that this worldly existence, with whatever is in everything, was made and produced by him for mankind; (47) and man was made by him predominant over all creatures and creations, wet and dry.
48. Now I will tell you a story (nisang-I) about
1 And unto Adam he said, “... 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; ... in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground" (Gen. iii. 17-19)
3.Unto the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply thy sorrow, and thy conception: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children”! (Gen. iii. 16).
9. And the Lord God said unto the serpent, "Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel”' (Gen. ii. 14, 15).
4 And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” (Gen. i. 26).
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