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Genesis 3:17

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

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Genesis 3:17

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

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1 Nephi 8 — The Tree, the Rod, and the Building — Two Geographies of the Soul
1 Nephi 10 — The Coming Messiah, the Olive Tree in Seed, and the Doctrine of Personal Revelation
2 Nephi 2 — Opposition in All Things, the Fall, and 'Men Are, That They Might Have Joy'
2 Nephi 8 — Isaiah 51–52:2 — Look unto the Rock, the Cup of Trembling, Awake and Put on Strength
2 Nephi 21 — Isaiah 11 — The Branch from the Stump of Jesse, the Sevenfold Spirit, and the Peaceable Kingdom
2 Nephi 24 — Isaiah 14 — Israel Restored, the Taunt-Song over Babylon's King, Lucifer Fallen from Heaven
2 Nephi 28 — False Churches in the Latter Days — The Lull of Carnal Security, the Few Stripes, the Line upon Line
Alma 12 — The Plan of Redemption Made Known — Mysteries According to Heed and Diligence, the Fall, and the Second Death
Alma 19 — The Light of the Everlasting Life Was Lit Up in His Soul — The Queen's Greater Faith, Abish the Long-Hidden Witness, and the Conversion of Lamoni's Household
Alma 20 — Go Not Up to the Land of Nephi — The Lord's Course Correction, the King over All the Land, and Ammon's Disarming Defense of His Friend
Alma 32 — The Experiment Upon the Word — Faith as a Seed, and the Blessedness of the Poor Who Were Cast Out
Alma 42 — Mercy Cannot Rob Justice — Alma on the Plan of Redemption
Alma 47 — Brought Down by Degrees — Amalickiah's Climb to a Stolen Throne
Alma 51 — The King-Men and the Javelin — Liberty Assailed from Within and the Death of the Usurper
Ether 14 — He Sweepeth the Earth Before Him — The Cursed Land, and a War Without Restraint
Helaman 12 — Less Than the Dust — Mormon's Meditation on the Nothingness of Man
Mormon 6 — O Ye Fair Ones — The Last Battle at Cumorah, and a Father's Lament Over a Fallen Nation
Mosiah 3 — The Angel's Message — Jesus Christ Named, Blood from Every Pore, and the Natural Man
Mosiah 6 — The Names Recorded — Priests Appointed, Mosiah Anointed, Benjamin Departed, and Three Years of Peace
Mosiah 10 — The Tradition of the Fathers — A Wrong That Is Taught, A Hatred That Is Inherited, A Deliverance That Comes by Remembrance
Mosiah 16 — The Light That Cannot Be Darkened — Abinadi's Closing Sermon on Carnal Death, the Light of Endless Life, and the Law That Points Beyond Itself
Mosiah 27 — The Angel, the Three Days of Death-Like Sleep, and the Born-Again — Alma the Younger and the Sons of Mosiah Converted, the Earth Trembling, the Soul Redeemed from the Gall of Bitterness
1 Kings 19 — The Sound of Thin Silence — The Prophet Who Asked to Die, the Angel's Bread, the Whisper at Horeb, and the Seven Thousand He Could Not See
2 Kings 6 — They That Be With Us Are More — the Axe Head That Swam, the Mountain Full of Fire at Dothan, and the Siege That Devoured Samaria
2 Kings 7 — The Noise That Emptied a Camp — Flour for a Shekel, Windows in Heaven, Four Lepers at Twilight, and the Day of Good Tidings
2 Kings 18 — Nehushtan — the King Who Broke a Holy Relic, the Kingdom That Fell Next Door, and the Voice at the Wall Asking, On Whom Dost Thou Trust?
2 Kings 20 — The Fifteen Borrowed Years — Tears the Lord Saw, the Shadow That Climbed Backward, and the Treasures Shown to Babylon
Genesis 2 — The Breath in the Dust — the Seventh Day Hallowed, the Man Formed, Eden Planted, and the First Marriage Made One Flesh
Genesis 4 — Two Brothers and One Altar — the First Offering Accepted and Refused, Sin Crouching at the Door, the Blood That Cries from the Ground, and the Seed Appointed Instead of Abel
Genesis 5 — The Book of the Generations of Adam — the Likeness Handed Down, the Drumbeat of the Dying, the One Who Walked and Was Not, and the Son Named for Comfort
Job 3 — Let the Day Perish — Job Breaks the Silence, Curses His Birth-Day, and Longs for the Rest of the Grave
Job 14 — If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again? — Job's Meditation on Human Frailty, the Tree That Sprouts Again, and a Question Left Open in the Dark
Job 39 — The LORD's Bestiary — The Wild Goats, the Untamed Ass, the Unicorn Who Will Not Serve, the Foolish Ostrich, the War-Horse Clothed in Thunder, and the Eagle on the Crag
Psalms 22 — The Psalm from the Cross — Forsaken, Pierced, and the Praise That Reaches the Ends of the World
Psalms 32 — The Blessedness of the Uncovered Heart — Forgiveness, the Body's Testimony, and the Confession That Sets a Soul Free
Abraham 5 — The Seventh Day, the Spirit Put Into the Body, and Bone of My Bones
Moses 4 — Give Me Thine Honor — the Council, the Serpent, and the First Promise of Christ
Moses 8 — Sons of God, Daughters of Men, and the Grief Before the Flood — Methuselah, Noah, and the End of an Age

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge via openbible.info (CC BY) and from this project’s own chapter essays. Read Genesis 3:17 in context.