Genesis 2:17
but of the tree of whose fruit they who eat know between good and evil thou shalt not eat; for in the day that thou eatest of it dying thou shalt die.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
16And the Lord God commanded Adam, saying, Of every tree of the garden eating thou mayest eat;
Cross References
Genesis 3:1And the serpent ( chivja) was more crafty than all the animals of the field which the Lord God bad made. And he said to the woman, Is it in truth (that) the Lord said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Genesis 3:11And He said, Who showed thee that thou wast naked? Of the tree of which I commanded that eating of it thou shouldst not eat, hast thou eaten?
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until that thou return to the earth, because from it thou wast created; for dust thou art, and to dust thou wilt return.
Numbers 26:65For the Lord had said to them that dying they should die in the wilderness; and not a man of them remained, except Kaleb bar Jephuneh and Jehoshua bar Nun.
Deuteronomy 30:15Behold, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
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 →