^4 (A)But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.

³ But I am afraid that ^(A)as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts ^(B)will be led astray from a ^(C)sincere and ^(D)pure devotion to Christ.

^44 (A)You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. ^(B)He was a murderer from the beginning, and ^(C)does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. ^(D)When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

¹⁴ and Adam was not deceived, but ^(A)the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.

¹¹ so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for ^(A)we are not ignorant of his designs.

¹³ Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, ^(A)“The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

¹⁰ And Elisha said to him, ^(A)“Go, say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover,’ but^[a] the Lord has shown me that ^(B)he shall certainly die.”

¹⁶ and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of ^(A)Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron—is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word?—therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’”

⁶ And they said to him, “There came a man to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you, and say to him, Thus says the Lord, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of ^(A)Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’”