Genesis 2:17
but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day + 2:17 This is an example of yom being used as an indefinite day in the future. What type of death was God making reference to? that you eat of it, you will surely have death.”
One Unity Resource Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
16Adonai God enjoined the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;
Cross References
Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Adonai God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”
Genesis 3:11God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I enjoined you not to eat from?”
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you teshuvah ·complete return· to the ground, 2 for out of it you were taken. 1 For you are dust, 2 and to dust you shall made teshuvah ·complete return·.”
Numbers 26:65For Adonai had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” There was not a man left of them, except Caleb [Dog] the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua [Yah Salvation] the son of Nun.
Deuteronomy 30:15Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, 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 →