17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die."
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat
17 except from the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil. Don't eat from it. The moment you eat from that tree, you're dead."
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
17 except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die."
5 Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.
5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
5 Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.
5 Adam lived a total of 930 years. And he died.
5 So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.
5 Adam lived 930Â years, and then he died.
(Read Genesis 5:1-5)
Adam was made in the image of God; but when fallen he begat a son in his own image, sinful and defiled, frail, wretched, and mortal, like himself. Not only a man like himself, consisting of body and soul, but a sinner like himself. This was the reverse of that Divine likeness in which Adam was made; having lost it, he could not convey it to his seed. Adam lived, in all, 930 years; and then died, according to the sentence passed upon him, "To dust thou shalt return." Though he did not die in the day he ate forbidden fruit, yet in that very day he became mortal. Then he began to die; his whole life after was but a reprieve, a forfeited, condemned life; it was a wasting, dying life. Man's life is but dying by degrees.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Genesis 2:17
Commentary on Genesis 2:16-17
(Read Genesis 2:16-17)
Let us never set up our own will against the holy will of God. There was not only liberty allowed to man, in taking the fruits of paradise, but everlasting life made sure to him upon his obedience. There was a trial appointed of his obedience. By transgression he would forfeit his Maker's favour, and deserve his displeasure, with all its awful effects; so that he would become liable to pain, disease, and death. Worse than that, he would lose the holy image of God, and all the comfort of his favour; and feel the torment of sinful passions, and the terror of his Maker's vengeance, which must endure for ever with his never dying soul. The forbidding to eat of the fruit of a particular tree was wisely suited to the state of our first parents. In their state of innocence, and separated from any others, what opportunity or what temptation had they to break any of the ten commandments? The event proves that the whole human race were concerned in the trial and fall of our first parents. To argue against these things is to strive against stubborn facts, as well as Divine revelation; for man is sinful, and shows by his first actions, and his conduct ever afterwards, that he is ready to do evil. He is under the Divine displeasure, exposed to sufferings and death. The Scriptures always speak of man as of this sinful character, and in this miserable state; and these things are true of men in all ages, and of all nations.