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Genesis 3:5

for it is manifest before the Lord, that in the day in which you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be ( ki-rabrebin) as the Great-ones, knowing good and evil.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

In Context

4And the serpent said to the woman. Not to die will you die:

6And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and that it was salutary to the eyes, and a tree desirable to contemplate; and she took of its fruitage ( aiba) and ate; and she gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:9And the Lord God caused to grow from the earth every tree desirable to look upon, and good for food, and the Tree of Life (Lives) in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of whose fruit they who eat know between good and evil.

Genesis 3:7And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed for themselves the leaves of the fig tree, and made for themselves cinctures.

Genesis 3:22And the Lord God said, Behold, man is become singular (or alone, yechid) in the world by himself, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he stretch forth his hand and take also of the Tree of Life, and eat, and live forever.

Exodus 20:7Thou shalt not swear in the name of the Lord thy God vainly; for the Lord will not acquit him who sweareth in His Name with falsity.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:2-6

The Tempter's Subtlety; The Tempter's Importunity ( b. c. 4004.) 1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the… Read the whole commentary →

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