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The specific message of the mother invokes the curse of the woman in Genesis:
בראשית ג:טז אֶל הָאִשָּׁה אָמַר הַרְבָּה אַרְבֶּה עִצְּבוֹנֵךְ וְהֵרֹנֵךְ בְּעֶצֶב תֵּלְדִי בָנִים וְאֶל אִישֵׁךְ תְּשׁוּקָתֵךְ וְהוּא יִמְשָׁל בָּךְ.
Gen 3:16 And to the woman He said, “I will make most severe your travails in childbearing. In travail shall you bear children. Yet your urge shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.
Corrected based on manuscripts. The Vilna edition reads ועשה מרעתי.
The un-vocalized vocable רע, besides denoting harm, can also denote friend, and it is the latter meaning the derash chooses to read into 1Chr 4:10.