Genesis 3:15

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“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.””

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BSBPD

“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.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“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.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Genesis 3:15 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 49:17He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.
  2. Numbers 21:6So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
  3. Psalms 132:11The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.
  4. Isaiah 7:14Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
  5. Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
  6. Isaiah 53:12Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
  7. Jeremiah 31:22How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land— a woman will shelter a man.”
  8. Daniel 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
  9. Amos 9:3Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.
  10. Micah 5:3Therefore Israel will be abandoned until she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of His brothers will return to the children of Israel.
  11. Matthew 1:23“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).
  12. Matthew 1:25But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a Son. And he gave Him the name Jesus.
  13. Matthew 3:7But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
  14. Matthew 4:1Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
  15. Matthew 12:34You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
  16. Matthew 13:38The field is the world, and the good seed represents the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,
  17. Matthew 23:33You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
  18. Mark 16:18they will pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be made well.”
  19. Luke 1:31Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus.
  20. Luke 1:76And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for Him,
  21. Luke 10:19Behold, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will harm you.
  22. Luke 22:39Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed Him.
  23. Luke 22:53Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on Me. But this hour belongs to you and to the power of darkness.”
  24. John 8:44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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