Cheryl Schatz

gengwall,
You said:

The unrelated ideas being her sorrow or toil and her desire, right? So you are saying that a “normal” conjunction of “and” would require the two ideas being joined to logically follow one from the other or otherwise be related. I guess that makes sense. So why would the next conjunction to “he rule over you” be appropriate? How is his rule related to or logically follow her desire if it is a neutral or good thing? Or do you not agree with “and” at this point either?

The way I see it is that each succeeding interconnected thought is something unexpected so the word “yet” or “but” is the best fit. i.e. The woman will have great pain in giving birth to children yet even though we would not expect this, she will still desire her husband and even though she will desire her husband there is also something that happens that we wouldn’t expect. He will respond to her desire by taking authority over her by ruling her.

The pain leads to an unexpected desire which leads to an unexpected rule. All joined together by the conjunction “w” as “yet” or “but”. The results are unexpected but they occur anyway.