Genesis 3:14

Catholic Public Domain Version

And the Lord God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, you are cursed among all living things, even the wild beasts of the earth. Upon your breast shall you travel, and the ground shall you eat, all the days of your life.

Cross References

Genesis 3:1

However, the serpent was more crafty than any of the creatures of the earth that the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, "Why has God instructed you, that you should not eat from every tree of Paradise?"

Genesis 4:11

Now, therefore, you will be cursed upon the land, which opened its mouth and received the blood of your brother at your hand.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God.

Psalm 72:9

They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has traversed the earth.

Isaiah 29:4

You will be brought low. You will speak from the ground, and your eloquence will be heard from the dirt. And, from the ground, your voice will be like that of the python, and your eloquence will mumble from the dirt.

Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb will pasture together. The lion and the ox will eat hay. And dust will be the food of the serpent. They will not harm, and they will not kill, on all my holy mountain, says the Lord.

Leviticus 20:25

Therefore, you must also separate the clean animals from the unclean, and the clean birds from the unclean. Do not pollute your souls with cattle, or birds, or anything that moves upon the earth, and which I have shown you to be unclean.

Micah 7:17

They will lick the dust like serpents, and, like the creeping things of the earth, they will be disturbed in their houses. They will dread the Lord our God, and they will fear you.