Genesis 3:14

New Century Version

The Lord God said to the snake, “Because you did this, a curse will be put on you. You will be cursed as no other animal, tame or wild, will ever be. You will crawl on your stomach, and you will eat dust all the days of your life.

Cross References

Genesis 3:1

Now the snake was the most clever of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day the snake said to the woman, “Did God really say that you must not eat fruit from any tree in the garden?”

Genesis 4:11

And now you will be cursed in your work with the ground, the same ground where your brother’s blood fell and where your hands killed him.

Genesis 9:6

“Whoever kills a human being will be killed by a human being, because God made humans in his own image.

Psalm 72:9

Let the people of the desert bow down to him, and make his enemies lick the dust.

Isaiah 29:4

You will be pulled down and will speak from the ground; I will hear your voice rising from the ground. It will sound like the voice of a ghost; your words will come like a whisper from the dirt.

Isaiah 65:25

Wolves and lambs will eat together in peace. Lions will eat hay like oxen, and a snake on the ground will not hurt anyone. They will not hurt or destroy each other on all my holy mountain,” says the Lord.

Leviticus 20:25

So you must treat clean animals and birds differently from unclean animals and birds. Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these unclean birds or animals or things that crawl on the ground, which I have made unclean for you.

Micah 7:17

They will crawl in the dust like a snake, like insects crawling on the ground. They will come trembling from their holes to the Lord our God and will turn in fear before you.