Genesis 3:14

Good News Translation

Then the Lord God said to the snake, “You will be punished for this; you alone of all the animals must bear this curse: From now on you will crawl on your belly, and you will have to eat dust as long as you live.

Cross References

Genesis 3:1

Now the snake was the most cunning animal that the Lord God had made. The snake asked the woman, “Did God really tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?”

Genesis 4:11

You are placed under a curse and can no longer farm the soil. It has soaked up your brother's blood as if it had opened its mouth to receive it when you killed him.

Genesis 9:6

Human beings were made like God, so whoever murders one of them will be killed by someone else.

Psalm 72:9

The peoples of the desert will bow down before him; his enemies will throw themselves to the ground.

Isaiah 29:4

Jerusalem will be like a ghost struggling to speak from under the ground, a muffled voice coming from the dust.

Isaiah 65:25

Wolves and lambs will eat together; lions will eat straw, as cattle do, and snakes will no longer be dangerous. On Zion, my sacred hill, there will be nothing harmful or evil.”

Leviticus 20:25

So then, you must make a clear distinction between animals and birds that are ritually clean and those that are not. Do not eat unclean animals or birds. I have declared them unclean, and eating them would make you unclean.

Micah 7:17

They will crawl in the dust like snakes; they will come from their fortresses, trembling and afraid. They will turn in fear to the Lord our God.