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Genesis 3:22

Yahweh God said, “Now the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. So now he must not be allowed to reach out with his hand, take from the tree of life, eat it, and live forever.”

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In The King James Version

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

In Context

21Yahweh God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

23Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:9Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. This included the tree of life that was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 11:6Yahweh said, “Look, they are one people with the same language, and they are beginning to do this! Soon nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them.

Proverbs 3:18She is a tree of life to those who take hold of it, 1 those who hold on to it are happy. 1

Isaiah 47:12Persist in casting your spells and your many sorceries 1 which you have faithfully recited since your childhood; 1 perhaps you will be successful, perhaps you will scare away disaster. 1

John 6:48I am the bread of life.

Revelation 22:2through the middle of the city's street. On each side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, and it bears its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:22

21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them. We have here a further instance of God's care concerning our first parents, notwithstanding their sin. Though he corrects his disobedient children, and put them under the marks of his displeasure, yet he does not disinherit them, but, like a tender father, provides the herb of the field for their food and coats of skins for their clothing. Thus the father provided for the returning prodigal, Luke xv. 22, 23 . If the Lord had… Read the whole commentary →

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