Genesis 3:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the snake said, Death will not certainly come to you:

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  • John 8:44 : 44 You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.
  • Gen 3:13 : 13 And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.
  • Deut 29:19 : 19 If such a man, hearing the words of this oath, takes comfort in the thought that he will have peace even if he goes on in the pride of his heart, taking whatever chance may give him:
  • 2 Kgs 1:4 : 4 Give ear then to the words of the Lord: You will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you. Then Elijah went away.
  • 2 Kgs 1:6 : 6 And they said to him, On our way we had a meeting with a man who said, Go back to the king who sent you and say to him, The Lord says, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you send to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? For this reason, you will not come down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.
  • 2 Kgs 1:16 : 16 And he said to him, This is the word of the Lord: Because you sent men to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, for this reason you will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.
  • 2 Kgs 8:10 : 10 And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You will certainly get better; but the Lord has made it clear to me that only death is before him.
  • Ps 10:11 : 11 He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.
  • 1 Tim 2:14 : 14 And Adam was not taken by deceit, but the woman, being tricked, became a wrongdoer.
  • 2 Cor 2:11 : 11 So that Satan may not get the better of us: for we are not without knowledge of his designs.

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  • Gen 3:1-3
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    1 Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?

    2 And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:

    3 But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.

  • Gen 3:5-19
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    5 For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.

    6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

    7 And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together.

    8 And there came to them the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening wind: and the man and his wife went to a secret place among the trees of the garden, away from the eyes of the Lord God.

    9 And the voice of the Lord God came to the man, saying, Where are you?

    10 And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes.

    11 And he said, Who gave you the knowledge that you were without clothing? Have you taken of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take?

    12 And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.

    13 And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.

    14 And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:

    15 And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

    16 To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.

    17 And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

    18 Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

    19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

  • Gen 2:16-17
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    16 And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:

    17 But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.

  • Gen 3:21-24
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    21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.

    22 And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.

    23 So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to be a worker on the earth from which he was taken.

    24 So he sent the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden he put winged ones and a flaming sword turning every way to keep the way to the tree of life.

  • 14 And Adam was not taken by deceit, but the woman, being tricked, became a wrongdoer.

  • 32 In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.

  • 9 And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

  • 9 And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.

  • 7 If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.

  • 4 And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life.

  • 11 If a snake gives a bite before the word of power is said, then there is no longer any use in the word of power.

  • 23 But the Lord said to him, Peace be with you; have no fear: you are in no danger of death.

  • 9 Will you say, in the face of those who are taking your life, I am God? but you are man and not God in the hands of those who are wounding you.

  • 4 Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;

  • 51 Truly I say to you, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

  • 3 And he said, Put it down on the earth. And he put it down on the earth and it became a snake; and Moses went running from it.

  • 16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

  • 6 Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.

  • 4 But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

  • 3 But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.

  • 15 Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

  • 17 Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?