Then the (A)serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not [a][b]die at all,

But God doth know that when ye shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, [c]knowing good and evil.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:4 This is Satan’s chiefest subtlety, to cause us not to fear God’s threatenings.
  2. Genesis 3:4 Hebrew, die the death.
  3. Genesis 3:5 As though he should say, God doth not forbid you to eat of the fruit, save that he knoweth that if ye should eat thereof, ye should be like to him.

“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.(A) “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,(B) knowing good and evil.”

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