2:3 For the message is a witness to what is decreed; ¹ 

it gives reliable testimony about how matters will turn out. ² 

Even if the message ³  is not fulfilled right away, wait patiently; ⁴ 

for it will certainly come to pass – it will not arrive late.

3:16 To the woman he said,

“I will greatly increase ¹  your labor pains; ² 

with pain you will give birth to children.

You will want to control your husband, ³ 

but he will dominate ⁴  you.”

3:17 But to Adam ⁵  he said,

“Because you obeyed ⁶  your wife

and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,

‘You must not eat from it,’

cursed is the ground ⁷  thanks to you; ⁸ 

in painful toil you will eat ⁹  of it all the days of your life.

3:18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

but you will eat the grain ¹⁰  of the field.