Quote Originally Posted by cassandra View Post
To answer your question, Genesis 3, verses 14 and 15:

14 The LORD God said to the serpent,
"Because you have done this,
cursed are you above all the wild beasts
and all the living creatures of the field!
On your belly you will crawl
and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
15 And I will put hostility between you and the woman
and between your offspring and her offspring;
her offspring will attack your head,
and you will attack her offspring's heel."
The verse "And dust you will eat all the days of your life" is not meant literally. It means everything they eat will taste like dust and that their food will be so common (mice are pretty common) that they will no longer have help from G-d.