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After Eve and Adam eat the forbidden fruit and confess their transgression to God, God pronounces curses on each of the parties involved. God first curses the serpent itself for provoking the human couple into sin. On one level, the curse suggests the natural behavior of snakes (crawling in the dust) and the hostility that often exists between humans and snakes.
In later Christian tradition, there’s a symbolic interpretation, too, as the second verse (“enmity between you and the woman”) has been called the “Protoevangelium,” or first gospel. That’s because the snake is symbolically viewed as Satan and the woman’s…