Bible verse

Genesis 3:4

“You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.

Genesis 3:4 · BSB

Genesis 3:4 in context

The verses around it, from Genesis 3.

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”

2 The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,

3 but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”

4 “You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.

5 “For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

7 And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.

8 Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

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Genesis 3:4 in other translations

KJV

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

ASV

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

ERV

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

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