Genesis 3:1-5

Devotionals, Articles, and Bible Study Resources on Genesis 3:1-5

1Now 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?’”
2The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
3but 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.
5“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
— Genesis 3:1-5

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