Genesis 3:2

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,

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And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

In Context

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?’”

3but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’” + 3:3 Compare what the woman says with what God told the man in (Gen 2:16). + 3:3 Compare (Gen 2:7, 2:16) with (Gen 3:3-4, 3:23-24). What kind of death is God referring to as punishment?

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Cross References

Psalms 58:4Their poison is like the poison of a snake; 2 like a deaf cobra that stops its ear, 2

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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