Genesis 3:22-23

The Fall

22 Then the Lord God said, q "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand r and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever - " 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden s to work the ground from which he was taken.

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 3:5
    For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 2:9
    And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  3. Cross References
    Genesis 2:5
    When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up - for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.
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