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Genesis 2:15-17
Lexham English Bible
Genesis 2:15-17
Lexham English Bible
15 And Yahweh God took the man[a] and set him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to keep it. 16 And Yahweh God commanded the man,[b] saying, “From every tree of the garden you may freely eat,[c] 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat[d] from it you shall surely die.”[e]
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- Genesis 2:15 “The man” indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article
- Genesis 2:16 “The man” indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article
- Genesis 2:16 Literally “eating you may eat”
- Genesis 2:17 Literally “of your eating”
- Genesis 2:17 Literally “dying you shall die”
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