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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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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:15 “The man” indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article
  2. Genesis 2:16 “The man” indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article
  3. Genesis 2:16 Literally “eating you may eat”
  4. Genesis 2:17 Literally “of your eating”
  5. Genesis 2:17 Literally “dying you shall die”