I will admit to being a little disappointed this week upon reading the parsha: I've been keeping track since Parshas Bereishis, and this is the first week that the word "water" does not appear.
In very exciting news, though, Husbinator bought me a set of Rav Hirsch's commentary on chumash, and he addresses the question that's been bugging me for ages! Briefly, I wanted to know why part of Chava's curse ("And your desire will be for your husband, and he shall rule you") was quoted almost exactly in Kayin's warning ("Sin crouches at the door; its desire is for you, and you shall rule it.") Less briefly, here's Rav Hirsch's discussion of this bit of Kayin's verse:
And for the sake of completeness, here's his discussion of the parallel portion of Chava's curse.
I have looked in many, many places, and Rav Hirsch is the first commentator I've seen who even acknowledges that the two pesukim sound awfully similar. Ahhh!
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