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Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of your dual-nostrils you are eating bread until your turning back toward the Red-one, for142 from her you have taken, for a dust is את yourself, and toward dust you are turning back.`142a

Footnote:

142a

Hebrew תאכלנה you all are eating. This is in the second person feminine plural. The suffix "נָה-" (-nah) indicates the third person feminine plural subject, so it refers to a group of females performing the action of eating. What scribes did was interpret the suffix for a singular feminine on a second person complete "you have eaten her."

Other words with the suffix ך- "yours" can be either feminine or masculine. The suffix ך is a matter of pronunciation. The original Hebrew does not give the pronunciation so what the Masoretes did was to add the masculine pronunciation: ךָ