@threadofeverything: Genesis 3:16, "your desire (*teshukah*) shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you," is almost always taught as God's design for marriage. It is not. It sits inside the curse, named in the same breath as thorns and pain in childbirth, the list of what the fall broke, not how things ought to be. Before the fall there is no ruling at all: the woman is *ezer kenegdo* (Gen 2:18), a strong help corresponding to the man, and *ezer* is the same word the Bible uses for God Himself rescuing Israel (Ps 121). Chrysostom said it sixteen hundred years ago: the woman was not called to submission before the fall. The word *teshukah* appears only three times in the Old Testament: cursed in Genesis 3:16, predatory in Genesis 4:7 (sin's desire to master Cain), and then healed in Song of Songs 7:10, "I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me," the same word, the arrow re-aimed, no ruling anywhere in it. It lands pure in the Bride's "Come" at Revelation 22:17. This is not a debate about who leads a marriage. It is that the Bible calls a man ruling over a woman part of the curse, and then spends the rest of itself undoing it. It was never the sentence. It was the diagnosis. And the Doctor spent the whole book healing you. #Teshukah #Genesis316 #BiblicalWomanhood #SongOfSongs #Desire

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