Genesis 3:18
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
KJV
Spinas et tribulos germinabit tibi, et comedes herbam terræ.
Vulgate
ἀκάνθας καὶ τριβόλους ἀνατελεῖ σοι, καὶ φάγῃ τὸν χόρτον τοῦ ἀγροῦ.
LXX
thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
ASV
וְ/ק֥וֹץ וְ/דַרְדַּ֖ר תַּצְמִ֣יחַֽ לָ֑/ךְ וְ/אָכַלְתָּ֖ אֶת עֵ֥שֶׂב הַ/שָּׂדֶֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
דַרְדַּ֖ר
drdr
noun · 2×
יְצַמַּ֥ח
ytsmch
verb · 33×
ם
m
verb · 811×
עֵ֣שֶׂב
'shb
noun · 33×
ק֥וֹץ
qvts
noun · 12×
שָּׂדֶ֔ה
shdh
noun · 334×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 3 passages
§378The sign of man's familiarity with God is that God places him in the garden.255 There he lives "to till it and keep it". Work is not yet a burden,256 but rather the collaboration of man and woman with God in perfecting the visible creation.
§1607According to faith the disorder we notice so painfully does not stem from the nature of man and woman, nor from the nature of their relations, but from sin. As a break with God, the first sin had for its first consequence the rupture of the original communion between man and woman. Their relations were distorted by mutual recriminations;96 their mutual attraction, the Creator's…
§2427Human work proceeds directly from persons created in the image of God and called to prolong the work of creation by subduing the earth, both with and for one another.209 Hence work is a duty: "If any one will not work, let him not eat."210 Work honors the Creator's gifts and the talents received from him. It can also be redemptive. By enduring the hardship of work211 in union w…
Cross-references
- 2Sam 23:6 — But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
- Heb 6:8 — But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
- Isa 5:6 — And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
- Isa 7:23 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
- Isa 32:13 — Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
- Jer 4:3 — For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
- Jer 4:3 — For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
- Job 5:5 — Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
- Job 31:40 — Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
- Josh 23:13 — Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eye
- Matt 13:7 — And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
- Matt 13:7 — And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
- Prov 22:5 — Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
- Ps 104:14 — He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
- Ps 104:14 — He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;