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Genesis 2:17

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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

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  1. Genesis 2:15

    And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

  2. Genesis 2:16

    And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

  3. Genesis 2:18

    And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

  4. Genesis 2:19

    And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

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