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“With the flow of the passage i struggle to see this. Eve’s ‘talking to’ falls directly under the curses of the serpent.”

Why would you think that God’s curses are thrown around without discretion? Cursing is serious. Adam and Eve were forewarned what would happen if they ate the fruit. It was a test. They failed and reaped the results. They were babes. God was just.

The serpent (and Satan) however may not have been been part of the test for the humans. We don’t know. He may have just inserted himself in the whole thing wanting God’s new creatures to fail because he was jealous that they were made in the image of God, which he was not. So, it was just for the serpent to reap a result for his part in deceiving the woman. And that result would be one that would be a reminder that such evil intents don’t get a free pass, slithering along the ground on his belly for ever.

Then when God was talking to the man He notes that Adam deliberately disobeyed and God specifically cursed the ground (because of him) and not Adam (which interestingly also affects the serpent since he would now slither on the ground). God said nothing of this sort to the woman. All of God’s words to the woman are a warning of how life would now be.