Genesis 2:16-17 Devotionals, Articles & Bible Study

¹⁶And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,

¹⁷but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

— Genesis 2:16-17

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