Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel." New Living Translation And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.” English Standard Version I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” Berean Study Bible 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.” King James Bible 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. New King James Version And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.” New American Standard Bible And I will make enemies Of you and the woman, And of your offspring and her Descendant; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise Him on the heel.” NASB 1995 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel." NASB 1977 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.” Amplified Bible “And I will put enmity (open hostility) Between you and the woman, And between your seed (offspring) and her Seed; He shall [fatally] bruise your head, And you shall [only] bruise His heel.” Christian Standard Bible I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel. Holman Christian Standard Bible I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel. American Standard Version 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. Brenton Septuagint Translation 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. Contemporary English Version You and this woman will hate each other; your descendants and hers will always be enemies. One of hers will strike you on the head, and you will strike him on the heel." Douay-Rheims Bible 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. English Revised Version 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. Good News Translation I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel." GOD'S WORD® Translation I will make you and the woman hostile toward each other. I will make your descendants and her descendant hostile toward each other. He will crush your head, and you will bruise his heel." International Standard Version "I'll place hostility between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. He'll strike you on the head, and you'll strike him on the heel." JPS Tanakh 1917 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; they shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise their heel.' Literal Standard Version and I put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He bruises your head, and you bruise His heel.” NET Bible And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring's heel." New Heart English Bible 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." World English Bible 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." Young's Literal Translation 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.' Additional Translations ... Study Bible The Fate of the Serpent14So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life. 15And 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.” Cross References Luke 24:27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself. Romans 16:20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was enraged at the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea. Treasury of Scripture 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. enmity. Numbers 21:6,7 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died… Amos 9:3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them: Mark 16:18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. thy seed. Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Matthew 13:38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; her seed. Psalm 132:11 The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I 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 shall call his name Immanuel. Jeremiah 31:22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. it shall. Romans 16:20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. Ephesians 4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. Colossians 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. thou. Genesis 49:17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. Isaiah 53:3,4,12 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not… Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. Verse 15. - And I will put enmity between thee and the woman. Referring - 1. To the fixed and inveterate antipathy between the serpent and the human race (Bush, Lange); to that alone (Knobel). 2. To the antagonism henceforth to be established between the tempter and mankind (Murphy); to that alone (Calvin, Bonar, Wordsworth, Macdonald). And between thy seed and her seed. Here the curse manifestly outgrows the literal serpent, and refers almost exclusively to the invisible tempter. The hostility commenced between the woman and her destroyer was to be continued by their descendants - the seed of the serpent being those of Eve's posterity who should imbibe the devil's spirit and obey the devil's rule (cf. Matthew 23:33; 1 John 3:10); and the seed of the woman signifying those whose character and life should be of an opposite description, and in particular the Lord Jesus Christ, who is styled by preeminence "the Seed" (Galatians 3:16, 19), and who came "to destroy the works of the devil" (Hebrews 2:4; 1 John 3:8). This we learn from the words which follow, and which, not obscurely, point to a seed which should be individual and personal. It - or he; αὐτος (LXX.); not ipsa (Vulgate, Augustine, Ambrose, Gregory the Great; later Romish interpreters understanding the Virgin) - shall bruise. 1. Shall crush, trample down - rendering שׁוּפ by torero or conterere (Vulgate, Syriac, Samaritan, Tuch, Baumgarten, Keil, Kalisch). 2. Shall pierce, wound, bite - taking the verb as - שָׁפַפ, to bite (Furst, Calvin). 3. Shall watch, lie in wait = שָׁאַפ (LXX., τηρήσει - Wordsworth suggests as the correct reading τερήσει, from τερέω, perforo, vulnero - Gesenius, Knobel). The word occurs only in two other places in Scripture - Job 9:17; Psalm 139:11 - and in the latter of these the reading is doubtful (cf. Perowne on Psalm in loco). Hence the difficulty of deciding with absolute certainty between these rival interpretations. Psalm 91:13 and Romans 16:20 appear to sanction the first; the second is favored by the application of the same word to the hostile action of the serpent, which is not treading, but biting; the feebleness of the third is its chief objection. Thy head. I.e. the superior part of thee (Calvin), meaning that the serpent would be completely destroyed, the head of the reptile being that part of its body in which a wound was most dangerous, and which the creature itself instinctively protects; or the import of the expression may be, He shall attack thee in a bold and manly way (T. Lewis). And thou shalt bruise his heel. I.e. the inferior part (Calvin), implying that in the conflict he would be wounded, but not destroyed; or "the biting of the heel may denote the mean, insidious character of the devil's warfare" (T. Lewis). Parallel Commentaries ... Lexicon Andבֵּֽינְךָ֙ (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 Jump to Previous Bruise Crush Crushed Enmity Foot Head Heel Hers Offspring Seed Strike War WoundedJump to Next Bruise Crush Crushed Enmity Foot Head Heel Hers Offspring Seed Strike War WoundedLinks Genesis 3:15 NIVGenesis 3:15 NLT Genesis 3:15 ESV Genesis 3:15 NASB Genesis 3:15 KJV Genesis 3:15 BibleApps.com Genesis 3:15 Biblia Paralela Genesis 3:15 Chinese Bible Genesis 3:15 French Bible Genesis 3:15 Clyx Quotations OT Law: Genesis 3:15 I will put enmity between you (Gen. 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