“[I]t
looked as if [Eve] would have to pay a high price for taking the initiative in
the search for knowledge.... The key is the word for sorrow, atsav,
meaning to labor, to toil, to sweat, to do something very hard. . . . [After
telling Eve of the astav of having children] the Lord says to Adam, ‘In atsav shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life’ (that is, the bread
that his labor must bring forth from
the earth). The identical word is used in both cases . . . It does not mean to be
sorry, but rather to have a hard time.” (See Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 1:89.)
President
Kimball said: “Our beloved mother Eve began the human race” wanting to bear and
rear children and “willing to assume” the hardships connected with doing so. (See October 1975 Conference
Report; March 1976, Ensign, p. 70.)
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