The verdict at the fall: head and heel

Genesis 3:15. Enmity between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

In plain words

In the same sentence that judges the fall, God puts enmity between two lines of descent: the woman's seed shall bruise the serpent's head, and the serpent shall bruise his heel. It is war declared with the outcome told in the same verb: a head wound kills, and a heel wound does not.

The mechanism

THE DECLARATION — the war announced in the verdict, and the outcome stated in the same verb. Head and heel are not symmetrical injuries

Scripture

Genesis 3:15

How it was checked

• EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: COMMITTED
• Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the awakening to Babel: dated by ruling and by the record, placed by story where the text gives no date
• Plate — James Tissot, The Old Testament, c. 1896-1902 · Phillip Medhurst Collection · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Remontrances_de_Dieu_(Genesis_3_16)_%E2%80%A2_invenit_James_Tissot_%E2%80%A2_pinxit_James_Tissot_%E2%80%A2_excudit_Maurice_de_Brunoff_apud_Philip_de_Vere_%E2%80%A2_praesentat_Phillip_Medhurst..jpg
• SourcesSCRIPTURE — Genesis 3:15