Genesis 2:17
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because the day you eat from it you are certain to die.”
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16The Lord God ordered Adam, “You are free to eat fruit from every tree in the garden,
Cross References
Genesis 3:1The serpent was more cunning than any of the other wild animals that the Lord God had made. He asked Eve, “Did God really say that you can't eat fruit from every tree in the garden?”
Genesis 3:11“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the Lord God. “Did you eat fruit from the tree I ordered you not to?”
Genesis 3:19You will have to sweat to grow enough food to eat until you die and return to the ground. For you were made from dust and you will return to dust.”
Numbers 26:65because the Lord had told them that they would all die in the desert. No one was left except Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun.
Deuteronomy 30:15Listen! Today I've placed a choice before you: life and what's good, or death and what's evil.
Judges 3:2(He did so to teach warfare to the later generations of Israel, particularly to those who had not previously experienced it.)
Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:17-18
The Tree of Knowledge Prohibited. ( b. c. 4004.) 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Observe here, I. God's authority over man, as a creature that had reason and freedom of will. The Lord God commanded the man, who stood now as a public person, the father and representative of all mankind, to receive law, as he… Read the whole commentary →