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Genesis 2:17

World English Bible

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

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Genesis 2:17 in other translations

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Genesis 2:17 · American Standard Version

Genesis 2:17 in context

  1. 15Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
  2. 16Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;
  3. 17but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
  4. 18Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
  5. 19Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.