¹⁶ And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

²² So Samuel said:

⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;

Instructions to the Rich

¹⁷ Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain ^(A)riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things ^(B)to enjoy.

⁹ And out of the ground the Lord God made ^(A)every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. ^(B)The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and ^(C)evil.

The Temptation and Fall of Man^(A)

3 Now ^(B)the serpent was ^(C)more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”

² And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the ^(D)fruit of the trees of the garden;