“but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 2 contains 25 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.