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Genesis 2:16-18
Lexham English Bible

16 And Yahweh God commanded the man,[a] saying, “From every tree of the garden you may freely eat,[b] 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat[c] from it you shall surely die.”[d]

18 Then[e] Yahweh God said, “it is not good that the man[f] is alone. I will make for him a helper as his counterpart.”[g]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:16 “The man” indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article
  2. Genesis 2:16 Literally “eating you may eat”
  3. Genesis 2:17 Literally “of your eating”
  4. Genesis 2:17 Literally “dying you shall die”
  5. Genesis 2:18 Or “And”
  6. Genesis 2:18 “The man” indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article
  7. Genesis 2:18 Literally “as his opposite”
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