Genesis 3:15
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I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

enmity.

Numbers 21:6,7 Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them. . . .

Amos 9:3 Though they go down even to hell, thence shall my hand bring them out: and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.

Mark 16:18 They shall take up serpents: and if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay their hand upon the sick: and they shall recover.

Luke 10:19 Behold, I have given you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and upon all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall hurt you.

Acts 28:3-6 And when Paul had gathered together a bundle of sticks and had laid them on the fire, a viper, coming out of the heat, fastened on his hand. . . .

Romans 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

thy seed.

Matthew 3:7 And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?

Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Matthew 13:38 And the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the cockle are the children of the wicked one.

Matthew 23:33 You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Acts 13:10 Said: O full of all guile and of all deceit, child of the devil, enemy of all justice, thou ceases not to pervert the right ways of the Lord.

1 John 3:8,10 He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil. . . .

her seed.

Psalm 132:11 The Lord hath sworn truth to David, and he will not make it void: of the fruit of thy womb I will set upon thy throne.

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and his name shall be called Emmanuel.

Jeremiah 31:22 How long wilt thou be dissolute in deliciousness, O wandering daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing upon the earth: A WOMAN SHALL COMPASS A MAN.

Micah 5:3 And thou Bethlehem Ephrata, art a little one among the thousands of Juda, out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be the ruler in Israel: and his going forth is from the beginning, from the days of eternity.

Matthew 1:23,25 Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. . . .

Luke 1:31-35,76 Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus. . . .

Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law:

it shall.

Romans 16:20 And the God of peace crush Satan under your feet speedily. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Ephesians 4:8 Wherefore he saith: Ascending on high, he led captivity captive: he gave gifts to men.

Colossians 2:15 And despoiling the principalities and powers, he hath exposed them confidently in open shew, triumphing over them in himself.

Hebrews 2:14,15 Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil: . . .

1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil: for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 5:5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

Revelation 12:7,8,17 And there was a great battle in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon fought, and his angels. . . .

Revelation 20:1-3,10 And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. . . .

thou.

Genesis 49:17 Let Dan be a snake in the way, a serpent in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, that his rider may fall backward.

Isaiah 53:3,4,12 Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not. . . .

Daniel 9:26 And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation.

Matthew 4:1-10 Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. . . .

Luke 22:39-44,53 And going out, he went, according to his custom, to the Mount of Olives. And his disciples also followed him. . . .

John 12:31-33 Now is the judgment of the world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. . . .

John 14:30,31 I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of this world: cometh: and in me he hath not any thing. . . .

Hebrews 2:18 For in that wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted he is able to succour them also that are tempted.

Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

Revelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried: and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death: and I will give thee the crown of life.

Revelation 12:9-13 And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him. . . .

Revelation 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And power was given him over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.

Revelation 15:1-6 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and wonderful: seven angels having the seven last plagues. For in them is filled up the wrath of God. . . .

Revelation 20:7,8 And when the thousand years shall be finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall go forth and seduce the nations which are over the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog: and shall gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. . . .

Context
The Fate of the Serpent
14And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. 15I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.
Cross References
Luke 24:27
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things that were concerning him.

Romans 16:20
And the God of peace crush Satan under your feet speedily. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Revelation 12:17
And the dragon was angry against the woman: and went to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. [18] And he stood upon the sand of the sea.

Lexicon
And
בֵּֽינְךָ֙ (bê·nə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 996: An interval, space between

I will put
אָשִׁ֗ית (’ā·šîṯ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7896: To put, set

enmity
וְאֵיבָ֣ה ׀ (wə·’ê·ḇāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 342: Hostility

between [you]
וּבֵ֣ין (ū·ḇên)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 996: An interval, space between

and the woman,
הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה (hā·’iš·šāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

and between
וּבֵ֥ין (ū·ḇên)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 996: An interval, space between

your seed
זַרְעֲךָ֖ (zar·‘ă·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2233: Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

and her seed.
זַרְעָ֑הּ (zar·‘āh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2233: Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

He
ה֚וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

{will} crush
יְשׁוּפְךָ֣ (yə·šū·p̄ə·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7779: To gape, snap at, to overwhelm

your head,
רֹ֔אשׁ (rōš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7218: The head

and you
וְאַתָּ֖ה (wə·’at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

{will} strike
תְּשׁוּפֶ֥נּוּ (tə·šū·p̄en·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7779: To gape, snap at, to overwhelm

his heel.”
עָקֵֽב׃ (‘ā·qêḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6119: Heel, footprint, hind part


Additional Translations
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.

and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed, he shall watch against thy head, and thou shalt watch against his heel.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel.

and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."

and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee -- the head, and thou dost bruise him -- the heel.'
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