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Exegesis:Genesis 2:16
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Translation of Genesis 2:16
God Yahweh commanded to the man, speaking: From each tree of the garden you may eat.
Translation of Genesis 2:17
From the tree of knowledge of good and bad, don't eat from it, because in the day you you eat from it you will become quite dead.
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Adam hasn't died physically in the day he ate it. Victor Porton claims that "you die" here means "the operating system of your brain will hang". See also Theology:Fall_of_the_man.
