Genesis 3.15

Greek: And I will set enmity between you and between the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; he will watch out for your head, and you will watch out for his heel."

Old Latin: And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. She will lie in wait for your head, and you will lie in wait for her heel."

Vulgate: And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed: it shall bruise your head and you shall bruise its heel.

Peshitta: And to the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pains and your pregnancies.. And in pains you will bear children.. And upon your husband you shall have return.. And he shall rule over you."

Targums:

Onkelos: And I will place enmity between you and (between) the woman, and between your children and (between) her children; it will remember what you did to it in ancient time and you will sustain (your hatred) for it to the end {of time}."
Neophyti: And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your sons and her sons. And it will come about that when her sons observe the Law and do the commandments they will aim at you and smite you on your head and kill you. But when they forsake the commandments of the Law you will aim and bite him on his heel and make him ill. For her sons, however, there will be a remedy, but for you, O serpent, there will not be a remedy, since they are to make appeasement in the end, in the day of King Messiah.
PS. Jonathan: And I will put enmity between you and the woman, between the offspring of your children and the offspring of her children. And when the children of the woman keep the commandments of the Law, they will take aim and strike you on your head. But when they forsake the commandments of the Law you will take aim and wound them on their heels. For them, however, there will be a remedy; but for you there will be no remedy; and they are to make peace in the end, in the days of the King Messiah."
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