Cursed are you above all cattle
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καὶ εἶπεν Κύριος ὁ θεὸς τῷ ὄφει Ὅτι ἐποίησας τοῦτο, ἐπικατάρατος σὺ ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν κτηνῶν καὶ ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν θηρίων τῆς γῆς· ἐπὶ τῷ στήθει σου καὶ τῇ κοιλίᾳ πορεύσῃ, καὶ γῆν φάγῃ πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς ζωῆς σου.
The serpent alone receives no question, no chance to answer — only sentence, and the first curse (ἐπικατάρατος) in Scripture. Its punishment is inscribed into its very body and posture: to go on breast and belly (a demotion from some presumed prior form — ancient and modern readers alike have wondered whether the serpent originally had legs) and to "eat dust" — an image less of literal diet than of utter abasement, echoed in later Near Eastern curse-language and at Isaiah 65:25 and Micah 7:17.
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