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  • From: "kenneth greifer" <greifer AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Genesis 2:15 and 2:17 is garden feminine?
  • Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:02:17 +0000

I don't think that Genesis 3:2-3 shows that Adam and Eve would die from eating the fruit because the plural verb "you will die" is used. It is possible that Adam misunderstood the original quote from Genesis 2:17 "you will die". Maybe G-d said "she (the garden) will die" and Adam thought he meant "you will die". Maybe Adam told Eve the wrong information about who will die, them or the garden.

Actually, this is just a wild guess. I think it probably said "you will die", but I was just considering another possibility for fun. I think Adam and Eve did not have knowledge of good and evil before they ate the fruit to know that the snake was lying to them , so they were not punished as severely and did not die that day.

Kenneth Greifer

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