He extended pardon to Adam (as to a part of the) nine curses and death. He curtailed his strength, and He shortened his stature by reason of the impurity connected with issues and with pollution; as well as the impurity arising from sexual intercourse; he was to sow wheat and to reap thistles, and his food was to be the grass of the earth, like that of the beast; and (he was to earn) his bread in anxiety, and his food by the sweat (of his brow); and after all these (curses came) death.
If Adam sinned, what was the sin of the earth, that it should be cursed? Because it did not speak against the (evil) deed, therefore it was cursed; for in the hour when the sons of man transgress the graver sins || God sends a plague to the sons of man; and in the hour when the sons of man transgress sins less vital, He smites the fruits of the earth, because of (the sins of) the sons of man, as it is said. "Cursed is the ground for thy sake" (Gen. 3:17).