Genesis 3:16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁶ To the woman He said, “I greatly increase your sorrow and your conception – bring forth children in pain. And your desire is for your husband, and he does rule over you.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ To the woman He said, I will greatly multiply your grief and your suffering in pregnancy and the pangs of childbearing; with spasms of distress you will bring forth children. Yet your desire and craving will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ To the woman he said, “I will make your pregnancy very painful; in pain you will bear children. You will desire your husband, but he will rule over you.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ To the woman, he also said: "I will multiply your labors and your conceptions. In pain shall you give birth to sons, and you shall be under your husband's power, and he shall have dominion over you."

Genesis 3:16 Cross References

Genesis 4:7

“If you do well, is there not acceptance? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should master it.”

1 Chronicles 4:9

And Yaḇ

Esther 1:20

“And the sovereign’s decree which he makes shall be proclaimed throughout all his rule, great as it is, and all the wives give esteem to their husbands, both great and small.”

Psalm 48:6

Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in labour,

Isaiah 13:8

and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows take hold of them, they are in pain as a woman in labour; they are amazed at one another, their faces aflame!

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labour. I was distressed when I heard it; I was troubled when I saw it.

Isaiah 53:11

He would see the result of the suffering of His life and be satisfied. Through His knowledge My righteous Servant makes many righteous, and He bears their crookednesses.

Jeremiah 13:21

What would you say when He visits you? For you have taught them to be chiefs, to be head over you. Do not pangs seize you, like a woman in labour?

Jeremiah 22:23

“You who dwell in Leḇ

Jeremiah 4:31

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labour, the distress as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Tsiyon! She bewails herself, she spreads out her hands, saying, “Woe to me, for my being faints because of murderers!”

Jeremiah 49:24

“Damascus has become feeble, she has turned to flee, and trembling has seized her. Distress and pain have taken hold of her like a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard the report of it, our hands grow weak. Distress has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in labour.

Numbers 30:13

“Every vow and every binding oath to afflict her being, let her husband confirm it, or let her husband nullify it.

John 16:21

“The woman has grief when she is in labour, because her hour has come, but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the affliction, for joy that a man was born into the world.

1 Corinthians 11:3

And I wish you to know that the head of every man is the Messiah, and the head of woman is the man, and the head of Messiah is Elohim.

1 Corinthians 14:34

Let your women be silent in the assemblies, for they are not allowed to speak, but let them subject themselves, as the Torah also says.

1 Corinthians 7:4

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

Colossians 3:18

Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as is proper in the Master.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then suddenly destruction comes upon them, as labour pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape.

1 Timothy 2:13

Because Aḏ

1 Timothy 2:15

But she shall be saved in childbearing if they continue in belief, and love, and set-apartness, with sensibleness.

Titus 2:5

to be sensible, blameless, workers at home, good, subject to their own husbands, in order that the word of Elohim is not evil spoken of.