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Mercuræn Buddhist
Adversity isn't always by agreement, is it?Eve is relaying what she had heard from Adam. She offers a direct quote. The act that she knows the expectation doesn't mean she entered into the same arrangement that Adam had entered into.
To me the passage reads like "If you buy a car, that means you'll be expected to make payments." This is a general principle. But such an arrangement is binding only for someone who actually buys a car.
We have no reason to believe that G-d ever asked Eve to enter into an agreement or that Eve went along with it.
(Compare Deut 30:15 to the two trees in the garden:
"15 See, today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and adversity. (G)")