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Actually, the Hebrew does not say “your desire shall be for your husband and he shall rule over you” but “your turning will be to your husband and he will rule over you”. Basically, from what I understand is the view of Dr. Katherine Bushnell, the sense of the passage is “A trap was set for you, and you will bring forth children in sorrow. You will turn and follow your husband, and then he will rule over you.”

So Eve, who was not cursed but blessed with the promise of the Savior, is being told that she will make a poor choice. This means she indeed had a choice, not a command, whether to leave the garden and follow Adam out or not. Only “the man” was driven out and forbidden to eat of the Tree of Life. Eve did not have to go. But God knew she would go anyway, and told her what would happen as a result.

Rom. 8:20-21 reads like this in The Source:

Creation was joined to futility, not because it wanted to be, but because of him who made it so. Yet there was the hope that creation itself also would be set free from slavery to decay…

We really need to be careful, especially with older translations, to make sure we have the correct understanding of the passage before we draw conclusions from them. This is made all the more difficult by known instances of deliberate mistranslation due to bias.