What does it mean: your desire shall be to your man? (Part 1)
• Gen 3:16 (ASV) -> “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”.
When we read this nemesis on Eve, apparently, this sounds good. Nonetheless, see this verse in another version:
• Gen 3:16 (ESV) -> “To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.””.
Reading this verse, we can figure out better. And this adds up. After the sin, our desires became contrary to us:
• Jas 4:1-3 -> “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.”.
See the case of Cain, what the Creator said to him:
• Gen 4:7 -> “If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. *Its desire is contrary to you* , but you must rule over it.”.
So, the sin changed the reality of the couple.
Let’s review the base for the creation of the woman.
• Gen 2:18 (LSV) -> “And YHWH God says, “[It is] not good for the man to be alone; I make him a helper as his counterpart.””.
She was made to stay face to face with him (as the cherubim in the ark of covenant). This position, before the sin, was the position of the love (as we well know, when husband and wife have sexual intercourse within the standards of purity and holiness of the Holy Scripture, they put themselves one in front of the other).
After the sin, this same position passed to mean opposition too (when two people fight, they stare at each other face to face).
Have a good day. Tomorrow we will keep on.
• Gen 3:16 (ASV) -> “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”.
When we read this nemesis on Eve, apparently, this sounds good. Nonetheless, see this verse in another version:
• Gen 3:16 (ESV) -> “To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.””.
Reading this verse, we can figure out better. And this adds up. After the sin, our desires became contrary to us:
• Jas 4:1-3 -> “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.”.
See the case of Cain, what the Creator said to him:
• Gen 4:7 -> “If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. *Its desire is contrary to you* , but you must rule over it.”.
So, the sin changed the reality of the couple.
Let’s review the base for the creation of the woman.
• Gen 2:18 (LSV) -> “And YHWH God says, “[It is] not good for the man to be alone; I make him a helper as his counterpart.””.
She was made to stay face to face with him (as the cherubim in the ark of covenant). This position, before the sin, was the position of the love (as we well know, when husband and wife have sexual intercourse within the standards of purity and holiness of the Holy Scripture, they put themselves one in front of the other).
After the sin, this same position passed to mean opposition too (when two people fight, they stare at each other face to face).
Have a good day. Tomorrow we will keep on.
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