Genesis Chapter 3 verse 4 Holy Bible
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
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And the snake said, Death will not certainly come to you:
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And the serpent said to the woman, Ye will not certainly die;
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And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
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And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
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The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,
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And the serpent saith unto the woman, `Dying, ye do not die,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - And the serpent said unto the woman. "As God had preached to Adam, so Satan now also preaches to Eve... The object of Satan was to draw away Eve by his word or saying from that which God had said" (Luther). Ye shall not surely die. Lo-moth temuthun (the negative 16 preceding the infinitive absolute, as in Psalm 49:8 and Amos 9:8; its position here being determined by the form of the penalty, Genesis 2:17, to which the devil's language gives the direct negative. Vide Ewald, 'Hebrews Synt.,' § 312). Thus the second step in his assault is to challenge the Divine veracity, in allusion to which it has been thought our Savior calls Satan a liar (cf. John 8:44: ὅταν λαλῇ τὸ ψεῦδος ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων λαλεῖ ὁτι ψεύστης ἐστιν καὶ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ). "Here, as far as we know, is his first begottten lie" (Bush).
