Adam and Eve’s punishments relate directly to that which is specified about them. At one point Adam was tasked with naming the animals (Genesis 2:19) but that task was completed at one point and thus, was over and done with. His full time hobby, as I will term it, was that “the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it” (Genesis 2:15). This is akin to gardening, gathering fruits and veggies, etc. Of Eve, it is specified that “she was the mother of all living” (Genesis 3:20).
Note that the punishments, the curses, relate specifically to that which is specified about them pertaining to their long term activities.
Adam’s hobby to “dress it and to keep” the garden turned to the job, the hard labor, of “in sorrow shalt thou eat of it…In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat” because now “cursed is the ground…Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth.” The ground once simply produced for Adam but he would now have to work it. Eve was “the mother of all living” thus, in that capacity, YHVH would “greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children”—in general and not just in the one case of Cain’ birth.
The way that the punishment fits the crime is that the punishment correlates, directly, to that which was to be each one’s specified task; working land and childbearing respectably.
Another aspect to note, at this point, pertaining to the aforementioned claim that Satan was the “someone else to whom she had directed her affection” is what Adam and Eve are described as sharing in common. That is that when “a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife” then “they shall be one flesh.” This may be why part of the curse upon Eve is “thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee” since she got him to, as it were, eat the fruit as in taking the lead and “unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife…” thus, Adam was to take the lead as Eve had been beguiled (Genesis 3:16-17). In fact, “the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty” (2 Corinthians 11:3) and yet, Adam is fingered, in a manner of speaking, for the fall, “in Adam all die” (1 Corinthians 15:22).
For my whole Serpent Seed of Satan series including my discussions with Zen Garcia, see see here. In the next segment we will consider the seedlines – bloodlines.
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