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Genesis 2:17

but from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, you do not eat from it, for in the day of your eating from it—dying you die.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

16And YHWH God lays a charge on the man, saying, “From every tree of the garden eating you eat;

18And YHWH God says, “[It is] not good for the man to be alone; I make him a helper as his counterpart.”

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Cross References

Genesis 3:1And the serpent has been cunning above every beast of the field which YHWH God has made, and he says to the woman, “Is it true that God has said, You do not eat from every tree of the garden?”

Genesis 3:11And He says, “Who has declared to you that you [are] naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I have commanded you not to eat?”

Genesis 3:19by the sweat of your face you eat bread until your return to the ground, for you have been taken out of it, for dust you [are], and to dust you return.”

Numbers 26:65for YHWH said of them, “They certainly die in the wilderness”; and there has not been left a man of them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Deuteronomy 30:15See, today I have set before you life and good, and death and evil,

Judges 3:2(only for the sake of the generations of the sons of Israel knowing, to teach them war, only those who formerly have not known them)—

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 →

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