Genesis 3:2
1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
3 but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
- KJV
- And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
- WEB
- The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,
- ASV
- And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat:
- DARBY
- And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;
- BLB
- And the woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,
- ÅB
- Og kvinnen sa til slangen: Vi kan spise av frukten på trærne i haven;
- OTB
- Kvinnen svarte slangen: «Vi kan spise frukt fra trærne i hagen,
- B1930
- Og kvinnen sa til slangen: Vi kan ete av frukten på trærne i haven;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 58:4
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
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