Genesis 3:1
Now 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?’”
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2The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,
Cross References
Numbers 22:28Adonai opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said + 22:28. Quoted in 2 Pet 2:16 to Balaam [Not people, Destroyer of people], “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”
Isaiah 27:1In that day, Adonai with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
Matthew 4:6and said to him, “If you are the Ben-Elohim ·Son of Elohim God·, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will enjoin his angels unto you.’ And, 1 ‘On their hands they will bear you up, 2 so that you don’t dash your foot against a stone.’” + 4:6. Quoted from Ps 91:11-12
Matthew 10:16“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:1
The story of this chapter is perhaps as sad a story (all things considered) as any we have in all the Bible. In the foregoing chapters we have had the pleasant view of the holiness and happiness of our first parents, the grace and favour of God, and the peace and beauty of the whole creation, all good, very good; but here the scene is altered. We have here an account of the sin and misery of our first parents, the wrath and curse of God against them, the peace of the creation disturbed, and its beauty stained and… Read the whole commentary →