Genesis 3:18
Modern Translations
New International Version
It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

New Living Translation
It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.

English Standard Version
thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.

Berean Study Bible
Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

New American Standard Bible
“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; Yet you shall eat the plants of the field;

NASB 1995
"Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field;

NASB 1977
“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you shall eat the plants of the field;

Amplified Bible
“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you shall eat the plants of the field.

Christian Standard Bible
It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Contemporary English Version
Your food will be plants, but the ground will produce thorns and thistles.

Good News Translation
It will produce weeds and thorns, and you will have to eat wild plants.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The ground will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat wild plants.

International Standard Version
It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you'll eat the plants from the meadows.

NET Bible
It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

New King James Version
Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field.

King James 2000 Bible
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field;

New Heart English Bible
Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the plants of the field.

World English Bible
Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.

American King James Version
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to you; and you shall eat the herb of the field;

American Standard Version
thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

A Faithful Version
It shall also bring forth thorns and thistles to you, and thus you shall eat the herbs of the field;

Darby Bible Translation
and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

English Revised Version
thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

Webster's Bible Translation
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Thornes also, and thistles shall it bring foorth to thee, and thou shalt eate the herbe of the fielde.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Thorne also and thistle shall it bryng foorth to thee, and thou shalt eate the hearbe of the fielde.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Thornes and thistles shalt it beare vnto the, and thou shalt eate the herbes of the felde.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And it shall beare thornes ad thystels vnto the. And thou shalt eate the herbes of ye feld:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and it brings forth thorn and bramble for you, and you have eaten the herb of the field;

Young's Literal Translation
and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field;

Smith's Literal Translation
And thorns and weeds shall it cause to sprout forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the green herb of the field.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou eat the herbs of the earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Thorns and thistles shall it produce for you, and you shall eat the plants of the earth.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Thorns and thistles it will grow for you, and you will eat the grass of the field;

Lamsa Bible
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to you; and you shall eat the herb of the field;

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
















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