Genesis 2:15-17

The Creation of Man and Woman

¹⁵ The Lord God took the man _k and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. ¹⁶ And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, ¹⁷ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil _l you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat ₁ of it you _m shall surely die."

1. Cross References
   Genesis 2:8
   And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
   
2. Cross References
   Genesis 3:1 - 3
   Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?
   Genesis 3:11
   He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?
   Genesis 3:17
   And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life.
   
3. Cross References
   Romans 6:23
   For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
   James 1:15
   Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.