The way the words are used in Genesis 3:16 communicates the building tension in the relationship of the man to the woman. This, and more, as we look at closely into the detailed findings by Dr. Joy Fleming in her research on Genesis 2-3 in this episode of The Eden Podcast.
Dr. Joy Fleming reveals the following in her deep analysis of the passage.
Domination by the woman of their attacker strikes the reader in Hebrew as an appropriate response to the attack in Genesis 3:15. God established this domination by the woman saying "I will put."
But domination of the woman by her partner jangles the reader by the tension in the syntax of 3:16c and 3:16d and is wildly out of place. God does not establish any domination of the woman by the man. God does not say "I will put" the man over you. If anything the woman is warned by God's observation that the man will rule over her.
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