Genesis 3:14
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
a. NLT: Then the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all animals, domestic and wild. You will crawl on your belly,
groveling in the dust as long as you live.
b. NIV: So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
c. YLT: And Jehovah God saith unto the serpent, 'Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou above all the cattle, and above every beast of the field: on thy belly dost thou go, and dust thou dost eat, all days of thy life;
d. Amplified Bible Classic: And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all [domestic] animals and above every [wild] living thing of the field; upon your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust [and what it contains] all the days of your life.
e. Septuagint: And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle and all the brutes of the earth, on thy breast and belly thou shalt go, and thou shalt eat earth all the days of thy life.
f. Stone Edition of the Chumash: And HASHEM God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, accursed are you beyond all the cattle and beyond all beasts of the field; upon your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life.
1. “And the LORD God said unto the serpent…”
a. [And the] LORD [Strong: 3068 Yhovah yeh-ho-vaw'; from 1961; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God:--Jehovah, the Lord.]
b. God [Strong: 430 'elohiym el-o-heem'; plural of 433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative:--angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.]
c. said [Strong: 559 'amar aw-mar'; a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude):--answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.]
d. unto the serpent [Strong: 5175 nachash naw-khawsh'; from 5172; a snake (from its hiss):--serpent.]
1). The serpent was not Satan, Satan is and always will be a fallen angel; but himself and those under him, demons or devils can inhabit animals and people Matthew 8:28, 32. As a result of the serpent lending himself to Satan/Lucifer/Devil in this deception, is it is forever synonymous with him.
a). Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
2. “…Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field…”
a. Because thou [Strong: 859 'attah at-taw'; or (shortened); aatta {at-taw'}; or wath {ath}; feminine (irregular) sometimes nattiy {at-tee'}; plural masculine attem {at- tem'}; feminine atten {at-ten'}; or oattenah {at-tay'naw}; or fattennah {at-tane'-naw}; a primitive pronoun of the second person; thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you:--thee, thou, ye, you.]
b. hast done this [Strong: 6213 * `asah aw-saw' a primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows):--accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.]
c. thou art cursed [Strong 779 'arar aw-rar'; a primitive root; to execrate:--X bitterly curse.]
d. cattle [Strong: 929 bhemah be-hay-maw'; from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute); properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective):--beast, cattle.]
1). Although the English word “above” is not in the Hebrew text, it was probably added by the Hebrew scholars because a part of the curse will never be romoved from the snake. The whole of the curse upon the animal kingdom will be removed from it except one part.
e. every beast [Strong: 2416 chay khah'-ee; from 2421; alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively:--+ age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.]
f. of the field [Strong: 7704 sadeh saw-deh' or saday {saw-dah'-ee}; from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat):--country, field, ground, land, soil, X wild.]
1). It is at this point that in the animal kingdom carnivorous natures began. Until now all animals and insects were vegetarians (Genesis 1:29, 30). Notice what is being said in the following passage from Romans.
a). Romans 8:19-22 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
(1) Notice what is being stated in the following passage. In Romans 8:19 the whole creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God; which will occur at the rapture of the church.
(2) In Romans 8:20 it says the whole of creation was made subject to vanity. E.W. Vine, writes this definition for vanity: “emptiness as to results, of the creation as failing of the results designed, owing to sin”. The earth was made subject to failure. When mankind fell, everything under him fell or was affected as a result. The reason is stated in the next verse.
(3) Romans 8:21 “Because”. When mankind is redeemed, eventually, creation itself will be delivered from the bondage of corruption. Presently and since the fall of man creation has been groaning in pain in the bondage of corruption.
2). It seems the nature of the bondage is satanic, i.e., the law of sin and death, but the ability of the creation to survive under the bondage is of God. Hence, the deposits of wisdom within the various species to enable them to generally avoid destruction, or to give them an advantage in the proverbial “dog eat dog” world: Job 39:26-30; Job 39:13-17; Proverbs 30:24-28.
3. “…upon thy belly thou shalt go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.”
a. upon [Strong: 5921 `al al properly, the same as 5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications (as follow):--above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, X as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, X both and, by (reason of), X had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-)on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, X with.]
b. thy belly [Strong: 1512 gachown gaw-khone'; probably from 1518; the external abdomen, belly (as the source of the faetus (Compare 1521)):--belly.]
c. thou shalt go [Strong: 3212 yalak yaw-lak'; a primitive root (Compare 1980); to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses):--X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.]
1). Apparently the serpent walked upright but one of its parts in the curse was he lost that ability, and that part of the curse will never be removed, even after the restoration in the new creation: Isaiah 65:17-25; Isaiah 11:6-9.
d. and dust [Strong: 6083 `aphar aw-fawr'; from 6080; dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud:--ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.]
e. shalt thou eat [Strong: 398 'akal aw-kal'; a primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively):--X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.]
1). The snakes eyesight is poor…the serpent continually flicks its tongue into the air to collect tiney particles of dust. It transfers these to an organ in the roof of their mouth called a Jacobson organ. It then interprets the information giving the snake the direction for food and allows it to sense danger.
f. all the days [Strong: 3117 yowm yome; from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb):--age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.]
g. of thy life [Strong: 2416 chay khah'-ee; from 2421; alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively:--+ age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.]
1). From the time the word of God has been in writing, the Scripture has said that snakes at one time did not crawl on their belly, implying legs and perhaps walking upright. It is beginning to appear that even evolutionary science is admitting to such a thing. The following pieces were written by evolutionary scientists in 2006 and 2015.
a). An article written by Malcolm Ritter of the Associated Press on 4/22/06, entitled, New fossil rekindles argument over snakes, reports a fossil find of a snake with legs. “It’s the first time scientists have found a snake with a sacrum, a bony feature supporting the pelvis, Zaher said. That feature was lost as snakes evolved from lizards, he said, and because this is the only known snake that hasn’t lost it, it must be the most primitive known….He said that although the creature had two small rear legs, it crawled like a modern-day snake and probable used its legs only on occasion, though for what purpose is unclear…The creature’s name comes from a Hebrew word for snake and the Rio Negro province of Argentina, where the discovery was made.”
b). A fossil snake with four legs Ed Young. Snakes can famously disarticulate their jaws, and open their mouths to extreme widths. David Martill from the University of Portsmouth did his best impression of this trick while walking through the Bürgermeister Müller Museum in Solnhofen, Germany. He was pointing out the museum’s fossils to a group of students. “And then my jaw just dropped,” he recalls. He saw a little specimen with a long sinuous body, packed with ribs and 15 centimetres from nose to tail. It looked like a snake. But it was stuck in unusual rock, with the distinctive characteristics of the Brazilian Crato Formation, a fossil site that dates to the early Cretaceous period. Snake fossils had been found in that period but never that location, and in South America but never that early. The combination of place and time was unusual. “And then, if my jaw hadn’t already dropped enough, it dropped right to the floor,” says Martill. The little creature had a pair of hind legs. “I thought: bloody hell! And I looked closer and the little label said: Unknown fossil. Understatement!” “I looked even closer—and my jaw was already on the floor by now—and I saw that it had tiny little front legs!” he says. Fossil-hunters have found several extinct snakes with stunted hind legs, and modern boas and pythons still have a pair of little spurs. “But no snake has ever been found with four legs. This is a once-in-a-lifetime discovery.” http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/23/a-fossil-snake-with-four-legs/
c). Scientists finally know why snakes lost their legs
By Michael Harthorne, Published December 01, 2015
A new study shows snakes lost their limbs to burrow in the ground, not to swim in the sea. (David Mikesic/Navajo Naiton Zoo via AP) "How snakes lost their legs has long been a mystery to scientists," Dr. Hongyu Yi says in a press release from the University of Edinburgh. But that mystery may have finally been solved thanks to a 90 million-year-old skull and advanced CT scan technology. It's been long theorized that the ancestors of modern snakes lost their limbs when they evolved to live in the sea. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh determined that's not quite right when they used a CT scan to create a detailed 3D model of the skull of a Dinilysia patagonica—a close relative of modern snakes—and compared it to those of modern reptiles. What they found was a unique structure in the inner ear that controls balance and hearing and is shared only by burrowing animals. Modern snakes that live in water don't have it. Using that information, researchers determined the ancestors of modern snakes actually lost their limbs in order to hunt and live in burrows, per the press release. "The inner ears of fossils can reveal a remarkable amount of information, and are very useful when the exterior of fossils are too damaged or fragile to examine," Yi says. The study also confirmed the 6.5-foot-long Dinilysia patagonica as the largest burrowing snake ever. The results were published Friday in Science Advances. The study confirms a Yale study from earlier this year that found snakes evolved on land and not in water, UPI reports. That study used genomes, fossils, and more to determine the ancestors of modern snakes lost their front legs approximately 128 million years ago, though they still had tiny hind legs.
(Here's how boa constrictors really kill their prey.) This article originally appeared on Newser: Scientists Finally Know Why Snakes Lost Their Legs
2). It is sometimes comical that when evolutionary sicience finally admits something Scripture has always said, they have to add their own explanation, that is, that snakes lost their legs because they wanted to hunt and burrow in the ground. In reality, snakes lost their legs not because of evolution but because of their participation in the fall of man.
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