The connection with childbearing and Jewish perspective
So far it's been neglected that the first part of verse 16 is about a woman's pain in childbirth:
Genesis 3:16
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
Reading this in a plain way would suggest that there is a connection between the first part and the second. There is a connection between childbirth and the husband's ruling.
One perspective which comes from Judaism is that the husband would rule over the woman (sexually) and she would have to bear children in pain. These are two sorts of punishments related to childbirth. One, the cause of childbirth (men) and secondly the childbirth itself.
Now the Jewish interpretation of Gen 3:16 from the Hebrew.
Gen 3:16 in Hebrew is:
"v'el isheich t'shukateich, v'hu yimshol bach."
The word yimshol means "rule over" and the root word for yimshol is moshel means a dictator, one who rules by force.
Anyone who knows Hebrew can maybe confirm or check if this is correct.
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