Promised Messiah (Gen 3:15)

“And the Lord God said to the serpent, ‘Because you have done this, cursed are you more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life’” (Gen 3:14).

Who is speaking? The Lord God

To what is the Lord God speaking? The serpent

Why did the Lord God say to the serpent: “Cursed are you more than all cattle, and mo

re than every beast of the field; on your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life”? “Because you have done this” (Gen 3:14)

What had the serpent done? Deceived the woman (Gen 3:13)

What was cursed more than all cattle and more than every beast of the field? The serpent

On what would the serpent go? On its belly

What would the serpent eat? Dust

How long? All the days of its life

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“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel” (Gen 3:15).

Who is speaking? The Lord God

To what is the Lord God speaking? The serpent

What would God put between the serpent and the woman? Enmity

What would God put between the serpent’s seed and the woman’s seed? Enmity

What word follows the words “her seed”? “He” (הוּא) [Masculine, singular pronoun)

To whom does “He” (הוּא) refer? The seed of the woman

Who is the seed of the woman? “He” (הוּא) (Gen 3:15)

What would “He” do to the serpent? Bruise it on the head

What would the serpent do? Bruise him on the heel