To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:28:55 -0500
<Liz>
> >The point is that the snake was right, not God. Their eyes were opened
(3:7), and they did not die on the day they ate it as God said they would
(2:17).
<Bill>
!!!!
There are some disturbing corrallaries to your interpretation - which I
admit has force from how I read the words.
Is there any possibility for a reading something to the effect of:
"...from the day you eat thereof you are certain to die..."?
or
"...in that day that you eat of it, I tell you that your death will be
certain..."
Or some other reading that doesn't place the death within the day?