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 their hands resulting from the ground which Jehovah had cursed. ’ ​ — Genesis 3: 17 - 19; 5: 29.
כביטוי לכך דיבר למך, אביו של נוח, על ’ עִצְבון ידיהם מן האדמה אשר אֵרְרָהּ [קיללהּ] יהוה ’ (‏ בראשית ג ’: ​ 17 – 19; ה ’: 29‏) .‏