Jeremiah 44:19 And then the women chimed in: “Yes! Absolutely! We’re going to keep at it, offering sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out offerings to her. Aren’...

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The Message - And then the women chimed in: “Yes! Absolutely! We’re going to keep at it, offering sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out offerings to her. Aren’t our husbands behind us? They like it that we make goddess cakes and pour out our offerings to her.” * * *
新标点和合本 - 妇女说：“我们向天后烧香、浇奠祭，做天后像的饼供奉她，向她浇奠祭，是外乎我们的丈夫吗？”
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 妇女们说：“我们向天后烧香，献浇酒祭，做天后像的饼供奉它，向它献浇酒祭，难道我们的丈夫没有参与吗？”
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 妇女们说：“我们向天后烧香，献浇酒祭，做天后像的饼供奉它，向它献浇酒祭，难道我们的丈夫没有参与吗？”
当代译本 - 那些烧香的妇女说：“你以为我们的丈夫不知道我们向天后烧香奠酒、照着她的形象做祭饼吗？”
圣经新译本 - 那些妇女又说：“我们不错是向天后烧香和浇奠祭，难道我们的丈夫不知道我们照着天后的形象制饼供奉她，向她浇奠祭吗？”
现代标点和合本 - 妇女说：“我们向天后烧香，浇奠祭，做天后像的饼供奉她，向她浇奠祭，是外乎我们的丈夫吗？”
和合本（拼音版） - 妇女说：“我们向天后烧香、浇奠祭，作天后像的饼供奉她，向她浇奠祭，是外乎我们的丈夫吗？”
New International Version - The women added, “When we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did not our husbands know that we were making cakes impressed with her image and pouring out drink offerings to her?”
New International Reader's Version - The women added, “We burned incense to the Queen of Heaven. We poured out drink offerings to her. And our husbands knew we were making cakes that looked like her. They knew we were pouring out drink offerings to her.”
English Standard Version - And the women said, “When we made offerings to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
New Living Translation - “Besides,” the women added, “do you suppose that we were burning incense and pouring out liquid offerings to the Queen of Heaven, and making cakes marked with her image, without our husbands knowing it and helping us? Of course not!”
Christian Standard Bible - And the women said, “When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it apart from our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
New American Standard Bible - “And,” said the women, “when we were burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes in her image, and poured out drink offerings to her?”
New King James Version - The women also said, “And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes for her, to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her without our husbands’ permission?”
Amplified Bible - And said the wives, “When we were burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and were pouring out drink offerings to her, was it without [the knowledge and approval of] our husbands that we made cakes [in the shape of a star] to represent her and pour out drink offerings to her?”
American Standard Version - And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink-offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink-offerings unto her, without our husbands?
King James Version - And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
New English Translation - The women added, “We did indeed sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven. But it was with the full knowledge and approval of our husbands that we made cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her.”
World English Bible - “When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?”
新標點和合本 - 婦女說：「我們向天后燒香、澆奠祭，做天后像的餅供奉她，向她澆奠祭，是外乎我們的丈夫嗎？」
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 婦女們說：「我們向天后燒香，獻澆酒祭，做天后像的餅供奉它，向它獻澆酒祭，難道我們的丈夫沒有參與嗎？」
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 婦女們說：「我們向天后燒香，獻澆酒祭，做天后像的餅供奉它，向它獻澆酒祭，難道我們的丈夫沒有參與嗎？」
當代譯本 - 那些燒香的婦女說：「你以為我們的丈夫不知道我們向天后燒香奠酒、照著她的形像做祭餅嗎？」
聖經新譯本 - 那些婦女又說：“我們不錯是向天后燒香和澆奠祭，難道我們的丈夫不知道我們照著天后的形象製餅供奉她，向她澆奠祭嗎？”
呂振中譯本 - 婦女們說：『我們向天后燻祭，澆奠祭，難道沒有我們丈夫的同意就作天后像的祭餅去供奉她，向她澆奠祭麼？』
現代標點和合本 - 婦女說：「我們向天后燒香，澆奠祭，做天后像的餅供奉她，向她澆奠祭，是外乎我們的丈夫嗎？」
文理和合譯本 - 我焚香灌奠於天后、作餅以象其形、加以灌奠、我夫豈不與乎、
文理委辦譯本 - 諸婦女曰、昔我焚香、灌奠、為餅、以事天后、豈非我夫所許乎。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 婦女曰、我焚香灌奠並作餅、以奉事天后、豈非我夫所許乎、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Y las mujeres añadieron: —Cuando nosotras ofrecíamos incienso y libaciones a la Reina del Cielo, ¿acaso no sabían nuestros maridos que hacíamos tortas con su imagen, y que les ofrecíamos libaciones?
현대인의 성경 - 그러자 여자들이 덧붙여 말하였다. “우리가 하늘의 여왕에게 분향하고 그 앞에 술을 따르며 그 모양을 본떠서 과자를 만들어 제사지낼 때 우리 남편들의 승낙 없이 한 줄 아시오?”
Новый Русский Перевод - А женщины сказали: – Когда мы возжигали благовония богине неба и совершали ей жертвенные возлияния, разве наши мужья не знали, что мы делаем для нее лепешки с ее изображением и приносим ей жертвенные возлияния?
Восточный перевод - А женщины сказали: – Когда мы возжигали благовония богине неба и совершали ей жертвенные возлияния, разве наши мужья не знали, что мы делаем для неё лепёшки с её изображением и приносим ей жертвенные возлияния?
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - А женщины сказали: – Когда мы возжигали благовония богине неба и совершали ей жертвенные возлияния, разве наши мужья не знали, что мы делаем для неё лепёшки с её изображением и приносим ей жертвенные возлияния?
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - А женщины сказали: – Когда мы возжигали благовония богине неба и совершали ей жертвенные возлияния, разве наши мужья не знали, что мы делаем для неё лепёшки с её изображением и приносим ей жертвенные возлияния?
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - – D’ailleurs, ajoutèrent les femmes, quand nous offrons des parfums à la Reine du ciel et quand nous répandons des libations en son honneur, est-ce à l’insu de notre mari que nous lui faisons des gâteaux qui la représentent et que nous répandons des libations pour elle ?
リビングバイブル - 女たちも、負けずに口をはさみました。「私たちは夫と相談して『天の女王』を拝み、それにぶどう酒を注ぎ、女王にかたどったケーキを作ったのです。黙って内緒でしたわけではありません。」
Nova Versão Internacional - E as mulheres acrescentaram: “Quando queimávamos incenso à Rainha dos Céus e derramávamos ofertas de bebidas para ela, será que era sem o consentimento de nossos maridos que fazíamos bolos na forma da imagem dela e derramávamos as ofertas de bebidas?”
Hoffnung für alle - Dann sagten die Frauen: »Unsere Männer erlauben uns schließlich, der Himmelskönigin zu opfern. Wir verbrennen Weihrauch für die Göttin, wir backen Kuchen, die sie darstellen sollen, und gießen Wein als Trankopfer für sie aus.«
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Một bà nói thêm: “Suốt thời gian chúng tôi dâng hương và tiếp rượu cho Nữ Vương trên trời, làm bánh theo tượng nữ vương, chồng chúng tôi lại không biết và không phụ giúp sao? Dĩ nhiên không phải vậy!”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - พวกผู้หญิงพูดด้วยว่า “เมื่อเราเผาเครื่องหอมถวายเทวีแห่งสวรรค์ รินเครื่องดื่มบูชาถวายพระนาง และทำขนมรูปพระนางถวายนั้น สามีของเราไม่รู้ไม่เห็นหรือ?”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - บรรดาผู้หญิงพูดว่า “เวลาที่พวกเราเผาเครื่องหอมและรินเครื่องดื่มบูชาให้แก่ราชินีแห่งสวรรค์ สามีของพวกเราไม่ทราบหรือว่า เราทำขนมเป็นรูปนางและรินเครื่องดื่มบูชาให้แก่นาง”

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Deuteronomy 7:3 - Don’t marry them: Don’t give your daughters to their sons and don’t take their daughters for your sons—before you know it they’d involve you in worshiping their gods, and God would explode in anger, putting a quick end to you.
Numbers 30:6 - “If she marries after she makes a vow or has made some rash promise or pledge, and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her, then she has to make good on whatever she vowed or pledged. But if her husband intervenes when he hears of it, he cancels the vow or rash promise that binds her. And God will release her.
Genesis 3:11 - God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from that tree I told you not to eat from?”
Genesis 3:12 - The Man said, “The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it.” God said to the Woman, “What is this that you’ve done?”
Proverbs 11:21 - Count on this: The wicked won’t get off scot-free, and God’s loyal people will triumph.
1 Kings 21:25 - Ahab, pushed by his wife Jezebel and in open defiance of God, set an all-time record in making big business of evil. He indulged in outrageous obscenities in the world of idols, copying the Amorites whom God had earlier kicked out of Israelite territory.
Mark 6:21 - But a portentous day arrived when Herod threw a birthday party, inviting all the brass and bluebloods in Galilee. Herodias’s daughter entered the banquet hall and danced for the guests. She charmed Herod and the guests.
Mark 6:22 - The king said to the girl, “Ask me anything. I’ll give you anything you want.” Carried away, he kept on, “I swear, I’ll split my kingdom with you if you say so!”
Mark 6:24 - She went back to her mother and said, “What should I ask for?” “Ask for the head of John the Baptizer.”
Mark 6:25 - Excited, she ran back to the king and said, “I want the head of John the Baptizer served up on a platter. And I want it now!”
Mark 6:26 - That sobered the king up fast. But unwilling to lose face with his guests, he caved in and let her have her wish. The king sent the executioner off to the prison with orders to bring back John’s head. He went, cut off John’s head, brought it back on a platter, and presented it to the girl, who gave it to her mother. When John’s disciples heard about this, they came and got the body and gave it a decent burial.
Genesis 3:6 - When the Woman saw that the tree looked like good eating and realized what she would get out of it—she’d know everything!—she took and ate the fruit and then gave some to her husband, and he ate.
Genesis 3:16 - He told the Woman: “I’ll multiply your pains in childbirth; you’ll give birth to your babies in pain. You’ll want to please your husband, but he’ll lord it over you.”
Genesis 3:17 - He told the Man: “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree That I commanded you not to eat from, ‘Don’t eat from this tree,’ The very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife; you’ll be working in pain all your life long. The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you’ll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting, sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you’ll end up dirt.”
Jeremiah 44:15 - The men who knew that their wives had been burning sacrifices to the no-gods, joined by a large crowd of women, along with virtually everyone living in Pathros of Egypt, answered Jeremiah: “We’re having nothing to do with what you tell us is God’s Message. We’re going to go right on offering sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, keeping up the traditions set by our ancestors, our kings and government leaders in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem in the good old days. We had a good life then—lots of food, rising standard of living, and no bad luck. But the moment we quit sacrificing to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out offerings to her, everything fell apart. We’ve had nothing but massacres and starvation ever since.”

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The Message - And then the women chimed in: “Yes! Absolutely! We’re going to keep at it, offering sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out offerings to her. Aren’t our husbands behind us? They like it that we make goddess cakes and pour out our offerings to her.” * * *
新标点和合本 - 妇女说：“我们向天后烧香、浇奠祭，做天后像的饼供奉她，向她浇奠祭，是外乎我们的丈夫吗？”
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 妇女们说：“我们向天后烧香，献浇酒祭，做天后像的饼供奉它，向它献浇酒祭，难道我们的丈夫没有参与吗？”
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 妇女们说：“我们向天后烧香，献浇酒祭，做天后像的饼供奉它，向它献浇酒祭，难道我们的丈夫没有参与吗？”
当代译本 - 那些烧香的妇女说：“你以为我们的丈夫不知道我们向天后烧香奠酒、照着她的形象做祭饼吗？”
圣经新译本 - 那些妇女又说：“我们不错是向天后烧香和浇奠祭，难道我们的丈夫不知道我们照着天后的形象制饼供奉她，向她浇奠祭吗？”
现代标点和合本 - 妇女说：“我们向天后烧香，浇奠祭，做天后像的饼供奉她，向她浇奠祭，是外乎我们的丈夫吗？”
和合本（拼音版） - 妇女说：“我们向天后烧香、浇奠祭，作天后像的饼供奉她，向她浇奠祭，是外乎我们的丈夫吗？”
New International Version - The women added, “When we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did not our husbands know that we were making cakes impressed with her image and pouring out drink offerings to her?”
New International Reader's Version - The women added, “We burned incense to the Queen of Heaven. We poured out drink offerings to her. And our husbands knew we were making cakes that looked like her. They knew we were pouring out drink offerings to her.”
English Standard Version - And the women said, “When we made offerings to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
New Living Translation - “Besides,” the women added, “do you suppose that we were burning incense and pouring out liquid offerings to the Queen of Heaven, and making cakes marked with her image, without our husbands knowing it and helping us? Of course not!”
Christian Standard Bible - And the women said, “When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it apart from our husbands’ knowledge that we made sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”
New American Standard Bible - “And,” said the women, “when we were burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes in her image, and poured out drink offerings to her?”
New King James Version - The women also said, “And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes for her, to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her without our husbands’ permission?”
Amplified Bible - And said the wives, “When we were burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and were pouring out drink offerings to her, was it without [the knowledge and approval of] our husbands that we made cakes [in the shape of a star] to represent her and pour out drink offerings to her?”
American Standard Version - And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink-offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink-offerings unto her, without our husbands?
King James Version - And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
New English Translation - The women added, “We did indeed sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven. But it was with the full knowledge and approval of our husbands that we made cakes in her image and poured out drink offerings to her.”
World English Bible - “When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?”
新標點和合本 - 婦女說：「我們向天后燒香、澆奠祭，做天后像的餅供奉她，向她澆奠祭，是外乎我們的丈夫嗎？」
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 婦女們說：「我們向天后燒香，獻澆酒祭，做天后像的餅供奉它，向它獻澆酒祭，難道我們的丈夫沒有參與嗎？」
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 婦女們說：「我們向天后燒香，獻澆酒祭，做天后像的餅供奉它，向它獻澆酒祭，難道我們的丈夫沒有參與嗎？」
當代譯本 - 那些燒香的婦女說：「你以為我們的丈夫不知道我們向天后燒香奠酒、照著她的形像做祭餅嗎？」
聖經新譯本 - 那些婦女又說：“我們不錯是向天后燒香和澆奠祭，難道我們的丈夫不知道我們照著天后的形象製餅供奉她，向她澆奠祭嗎？”
呂振中譯本 - 婦女們說：『我們向天后燻祭，澆奠祭，難道沒有我們丈夫的同意就作天后像的祭餅去供奉她，向她澆奠祭麼？』
現代標點和合本 - 婦女說：「我們向天后燒香，澆奠祭，做天后像的餅供奉她，向她澆奠祭，是外乎我們的丈夫嗎？」
文理和合譯本 - 我焚香灌奠於天后、作餅以象其形、加以灌奠、我夫豈不與乎、
文理委辦譯本 - 諸婦女曰、昔我焚香、灌奠、為餅、以事天后、豈非我夫所許乎。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 婦女曰、我焚香灌奠並作餅、以奉事天后、豈非我夫所許乎、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Y las mujeres añadieron: —Cuando nosotras ofrecíamos incienso y libaciones a la Reina del Cielo, ¿acaso no sabían nuestros maridos que hacíamos tortas con su imagen, y que les ofrecíamos libaciones?
현대인의 성경 - 그러자 여자들이 덧붙여 말하였다. “우리가 하늘의 여왕에게 분향하고 그 앞에 술을 따르며 그 모양을 본떠서 과자를 만들어 제사지낼 때 우리 남편들의 승낙 없이 한 줄 아시오?”
Новый Русский Перевод - А женщины сказали: – Когда мы возжигали благовония богине неба и совершали ей жертвенные возлияния, разве наши мужья не знали, что мы делаем для нее лепешки с ее изображением и приносим ей жертвенные возлияния?
Восточный перевод - А женщины сказали: – Когда мы возжигали благовония богине неба и совершали ей жертвенные возлияния, разве наши мужья не знали, что мы делаем для неё лепёшки с её изображением и приносим ей жертвенные возлияния?
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - А женщины сказали: – Когда мы возжигали благовония богине неба и совершали ей жертвенные возлияния, разве наши мужья не знали, что мы делаем для неё лепёшки с её изображением и приносим ей жертвенные возлияния?
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - А женщины сказали: – Когда мы возжигали благовония богине неба и совершали ей жертвенные возлияния, разве наши мужья не знали, что мы делаем для неё лепёшки с её изображением и приносим ей жертвенные возлияния?
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - – D’ailleurs, ajoutèrent les femmes, quand nous offrons des parfums à la Reine du ciel et quand nous répandons des libations en son honneur, est-ce à l’insu de notre mari que nous lui faisons des gâteaux qui la représentent et que nous répandons des libations pour elle ?
リビングバイブル - 女たちも、負けずに口をはさみました。「私たちは夫と相談して『天の女王』を拝み、それにぶどう酒を注ぎ、女王にかたどったケーキを作ったのです。黙って内緒でしたわけではありません。」
Nova Versão Internacional - E as mulheres acrescentaram: “Quando queimávamos incenso à Rainha dos Céus e derramávamos ofertas de bebidas para ela, será que era sem o consentimento de nossos maridos que fazíamos bolos na forma da imagem dela e derramávamos as ofertas de bebidas?”
Hoffnung für alle - Dann sagten die Frauen: »Unsere Männer erlauben uns schließlich, der Himmelskönigin zu opfern. Wir verbrennen Weihrauch für die Göttin, wir backen Kuchen, die sie darstellen sollen, und gießen Wein als Trankopfer für sie aus.«
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Một bà nói thêm: “Suốt thời gian chúng tôi dâng hương và tiếp rượu cho Nữ Vương trên trời, làm bánh theo tượng nữ vương, chồng chúng tôi lại không biết và không phụ giúp sao? Dĩ nhiên không phải vậy!”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - พวกผู้หญิงพูดด้วยว่า “เมื่อเราเผาเครื่องหอมถวายเทวีแห่งสวรรค์ รินเครื่องดื่มบูชาถวายพระนาง และทำขนมรูปพระนางถวายนั้น สามีของเราไม่รู้ไม่เห็นหรือ?”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - บรรดาผู้หญิงพูดว่า “เวลาที่พวกเราเผาเครื่องหอมและรินเครื่องดื่มบูชาให้แก่ราชินีแห่งสวรรค์ สามีของพวกเราไม่ทราบหรือว่า เราทำขนมเป็นรูปนางและรินเครื่องดื่มบูชาให้แก่นาง”

Deuteronomy 7:3 - Don’t marry them: Don’t give your daughters to their sons and don’t take their daughters for your sons—before you know it they’d involve you in worshiping their gods, and God would explode in anger, putting a quick end to you.
Numbers 30:6 - “If she marries after she makes a vow or has made some rash promise or pledge, and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her, then she has to make good on whatever she vowed or pledged. But if her husband intervenes when he hears of it, he cancels the vow or rash promise that binds her. And God will release her.
Genesis 3:11 - God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from that tree I told you not to eat from?”
Genesis 3:12 - The Man said, “The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it.” God said to the Woman, “What is this that you’ve done?”
Proverbs 11:21 - Count on this: The wicked won’t get off scot-free, and God’s loyal people will triumph.
1 Kings 21:25 - Ahab, pushed by his wife Jezebel and in open defiance of God, set an all-time record in making big business of evil. He indulged in outrageous obscenities in the world of idols, copying the Amorites whom God had earlier kicked out of Israelite territory.
Mark 6:21 - But a portentous day arrived when Herod threw a birthday party, inviting all the brass and bluebloods in Galilee. Herodias’s daughter entered the banquet hall and danced for the guests. She charmed Herod and the guests.
Mark 6:22 - The king said to the girl, “Ask me anything. I’ll give you anything you want.” Carried away, he kept on, “I swear, I’ll split my kingdom with you if you say so!”
Mark 6:24 - She went back to her mother and said, “What should I ask for?” “Ask for the head of John the Baptizer.”
Mark 6:25 - Excited, she ran back to the king and said, “I want the head of John the Baptizer served up on a platter. And I want it now!”
Mark 6:26 - That sobered the king up fast. But unwilling to lose face with his guests, he caved in and let her have her wish. The king sent the executioner off to the prison with orders to bring back John’s head. He went, cut off John’s head, brought it back on a platter, and presented it to the girl, who gave it to her mother. When John’s disciples heard about this, they came and got the body and gave it a decent burial.
Genesis 3:6 - When the Woman saw that the tree looked like good eating and realized what she would get out of it—she’d know everything!—she took and ate the fruit and then gave some to her husband, and he ate.
Genesis 3:16 - He told the Woman: “I’ll multiply your pains in childbirth; you’ll give birth to your babies in pain. You’ll want to please your husband, but he’ll lord it over you.”
Genesis 3:17 - He told the Man: “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree That I commanded you not to eat from, ‘Don’t eat from this tree,’ The very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife; you’ll be working in pain all your life long. The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you’ll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting, sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you’ll end up dirt.”
Jeremiah 44:15 - The men who knew that their wives had been burning sacrifices to the no-gods, joined by a large crowd of women, along with virtually everyone living in Pathros of Egypt, answered Jeremiah: “We’re having nothing to do with what you tell us is God’s Message. We’re going to go right on offering sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, keeping up the traditions set by our ancestors, our kings and government leaders in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem in the good old days. We had a good life then—lots of food, rising standard of living, and no bad luck. But the moment we quit sacrificing to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out offerings to her, everything fell apart. We’ve had nothing but massacres and starvation ever since.”