The effects of the cursed ground, with its thorns and thistles, were so keenly felt by Adam’s descendants that Noah’s father, Lamech, spoke of “the pain of our hands resulting from the ground which Jehovah has cursed. ”
از این نظر که کشت و کار در آن بسیار دشوار شده بود ،‏ همان طور که لَمَک ،‏ پدر نوح ،‏ در پیدایش ۵ :‏ ۲۹ این موضوع را تأیید می‌کند .‏