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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evils, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou πshalt surely die.

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Gen. 3:1,3,11,17• ¹Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Jehovah Elohim had made. And it said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
³but of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
¹¹And he said, Who told thee that thou [art] naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee not to eat?
¹⁷And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto thy wife's voice, and hast eaten of the tree [of] which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed [be] the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all thy life's days; (Gen. 3:1,3,11,17)

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Rom. 6:23• ²³For the wages of sin [is] death, but the free gift of God life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 6:23)

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1 Cor. 15:56• ⁵⁶Now the sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin the law; (1 Cor. 15:56)

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dying thou shalt die.

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of the tree.

Gen. 2:9• ⁹And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowing good and evil. (Gen. 2:9)

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Gen. 3:1‑3,11,17,19• ¹Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Jehovah Elohim had made. And it said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
²And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;
³but of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
¹¹And he said, Who told thee that thou [art] naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee not to eat?
¹⁷And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto thy wife's voice, and hast eaten of the tree [of] which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed [be] the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all thy life's days;
¹⁹in sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken. For dust [art] thou, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Gen. 3:1‑3,11,17,19)

thou shalt surely die.

Heb. dying thou shalt die.

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Gen. 3:3‑4,19• ³but of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
⁴And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
¹⁹in sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken. For dust [art] thou, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Gen. 3:3‑4,19)

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Gen. 20:7• ⁷Now therefore restore the man his wife: for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine. (Gen. 20:7)

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Num. 26:65• ⁶⁵{i}For Jehovah had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.{/i} (Num. 26:65)

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Deut. 27:26• ²⁶{i}Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them! And all the people shall say, Amen.{/i} (Deut. 27:26)

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1 Sam. 14:39,44• ³⁹For, as Jehovah liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. {i}And no one answered him among all the people.{/i}
⁴⁴And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan. (1 Sam. 14:39,44)

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1 Sam. 20:31• ³¹For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die. (1 Sam. 20:31)

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1 Sam. 22:16• ¹⁶{i}And the king said, Thou shalt certainly die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.{/i} (1 Sam. 22:16)

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1 Kings 2:37,42• ³⁷{i}And it shall be that on the day thou goest forth, and passest over the torrent of Kidron, ...know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.{/i}
⁴²{i}And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Did I not make thee swear by Jehovah, and protest to thee, saying, Know for certain, that on the day thou goest forth, and walkest abroad anywhere, thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst to me, The word that I have heard is good.{/i} (1 Kings 2:37,42)

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Jer. 26:8• ⁸Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die. (Jer. 26:8)

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Ezek. 3:18‑20• ¹⁸{i}When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt certainly die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, that he may live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.{/i}
¹⁹{i}But if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.{/i}
²⁰{i}And when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and do what is wrong, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die; because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous acts which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.{/i} (Ezek. 3:18‑20)

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Ezek. 18:4,13,32• ⁴Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth it shall die.
¹³hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
³²For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord Jehovah: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. (Ezek. 18:4,13,32)

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Ezek. 33:8,14• ⁸When I say unto the wicked, Ο wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
¹⁴Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; (Ezek. 33:8,14)

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Rom. 1:32• ³²which, knowing right well the righteous award of God that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practice them but also have a fellow-pleasure in those that do [them]. (Rom. 1:32)

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Rom. 5:12‑21• ¹²On this account as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death, and thus death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:
¹³(for until law sin was in [the] world, but no sin is put to account when there is no law;
¹⁴but death reigned from Adam till Moses even over those that had not sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a figure of the coming [one].
¹⁵But [shall] not, as the offence, so also [be] the free gift? for if by the offence of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ abound unto the many.
¹⁶And [shall] not, as by one having sinned, [be] the gift? For the judgment [was] of one unto condemnation, but the free gift [was] of many offences unto justification.
¹⁷For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much more they that receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:)
¹⁸So then as by one offence [it was] toward all men for condemnation, so also by one accomplished righteousness toward all men for justification of life.
¹⁹For as by the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many shall be constituted righteous.
²⁰But law came in by the way, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded, grace over-abounded
²¹that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness unto life eternal by Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 5:12‑21)

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Rom. 6:16,23• ¹⁶Know ye not that to whom ye are yielding yourselves as bondservants for obedience, ye are bondservants to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness?
²³For the wages of sin [is] death, but the free gift of God life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 6:16,23)

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Rom. 7:10‑13• ¹⁰and the commandment that [was] unto life, this was found to me unto death.
¹¹For sin having taken a point of attack by the commandment deceived me and by it slew [me].
¹²So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
¹³Did then the good become death to me? Let it not be; but sin, that it might appear sin, working out death to me by the good, that sin might become excessively sinful by the commandment. (Rom. 7:10‑13)

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Rom. 8:2• ²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath freed me from the law of sin and death. (Rom. 8:2)

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1 Cor. 15:22,56• ²²For as in the Adam all die, so also in the Christ shall all be made alive;
⁵⁶Now the sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin the law; (1 Cor. 15:22,56)

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Gal. 3:10• ¹⁰For as many as are of works of law are under curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doth not continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them;” (Gal. 3:10)

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Eph. 2:1‑6• ¹And you, being dead in your offences and your sins,
²in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
³among whom we all also had our conversation once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were children, by nature, of wrath even as the rest;
⁴but God, being rich in mercy, on account of his great love wherewith he loved us,
⁵even us being dead in our offences he quickened with the Christ (by grace are ye saved),
⁶and raised together and seated together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus, (Eph. 2:1‑6)

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Eph. 5:14• ¹⁴Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise out of [the] dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee. (Eph. 5:14)

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Col. 2:13• ¹³And you, being dead in offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he quickened you together with him, having forgiven us all the offenses, (Col. 2:13)

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1 Tim. 5:6• ⁶But she that devoteth herself to pleasure is dead while living. (1 Tim. 5:6)

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James 1:15• ¹⁵then lust having conceived bringeth forth sin; and sin when completed giveth birth to death. (James 1:15)

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1 John 5:16• ¹⁶If anyone see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he will give him life for those that sin not unto death. There is sin unto death: I do not say that he should request for it. (1 John 5:16)

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Rev. 2:11• ¹¹He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. He that overcometh shall in no wise be hurt of the second death. (Rev. 2:11)

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Rev. 20:6,14• ⁶Blessed and holy {i}is{/i} he that hath part in the first resurrection: over these the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years.
¹⁴And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:6,14)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But for the cowardly and faithless and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part {i}shall be{/i} in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

• Adam’s life was suspended upon his strict obedience. The link which connected him with the Lord God* was obedience, based on implicit confidence in the One who had set him in his position of dignity—confidence in His truth—confidence in His love. (“Genesis 2” by C.H. Mackintosh)

• Then, when all around was life, God spoke of death; now, on the contrary, when all around is death, God speaks of life: then the word was, “in the day thou eatest thou shalt die”; now the word is, “believe and live.” (“Genesis 2” by C.H. Mackintosh)

• Responsibility in obedience, and a sovereign source of life-the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life. (“Genesis 2” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt certainly die.

W. Kelly Translation

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but of the tree of knowing good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it thou shalt surelya die.

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(dying)