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The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
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Genesis 3:14. God said unto the serpent — In passing...
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The Fate of the Serpent 14 And the Lord God said to the...
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(7) And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the...
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The serpent deceives Eve. 6. Both she and Adam transgress...
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The Punishment of Mankind 16 To the woman He said: “I will...
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2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” 4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.
… 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. 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.”…
Context. The Serpent's Deception. 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?’” 2 The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,….
- Revelation 12:9 ESV / 65 helpful votes. And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
- Genesis 3:1 ESV / 65 helpful votes. Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”
- Revelation 20:2 ESV / 46 helpful votes. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,
- 2 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 43 helpful votes. But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
Now God turns to the serpent, but with a notable difference: He doesn't ask the serpent what he did. He doesn't look for a confession or to engage in debate with the serpent. As discussed previously, this serpent is consistently understood by conservative Bible scholars to be Satan himself.
But God did say, ‘You must not eat the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden. Do not even touch it. If you do, you will die.’ ” “You will certainly not die,” the serpent said to the woman. “God knows that when you eat fruit from that tree, you will know things you have never known before.
