Bible Strands
Genesis 3:15
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
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Study note
Setting — The LORD God speaks to the serpent, after declaring it cursed and before He addresses the woman.
The words — 'ei.Vah (enmity) names the hostility God will place between the serpent and the woman, and between their offspring. zar.'a./Kha (your offspring) makes that hostility a line-to-line conflict.
The thread — The same opposition runs into Romans 16:20, where the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet. It also appears in 1 John 3:8 and Revelation 12:17, where the devil’s sin and the dragon’s war against the woman’s children continue the conflict.
Why it lands — It asks the reader to take the enmity as a real, continuing division, not a finished story. It places the reader inside the woman’s offspring against the serpent’s offspring.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Romans 16:20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- 1 John 3:8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.
- Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was enraged at the woman and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.
- Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
- Hebrews 2:14 Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,
- Galatians 4:4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
- John 8:44 You 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.
- 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”).
- Revelation 12:7 Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
- Isaiah 53:3 He 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.