Genesis 3:1-3

Expanded Bible

The Beginning of Sin

3 Now the ·snake [serpent] was the most ·clever [shrewd; cunning; crafty] of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day the snake said to the woman, “Did God really say that you must not eat fruit from any tree in the garden?”

² The woman answered the snake [3:1], “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden. ³ But God told us, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden [^Cthe tree of the knowledge of good and evil]. You must not even touch it [^CEve was adding to the divine command], or you will die.’ ”