Holy Scripture
Genesis 3:2
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“The serpent could not enter paradise, for neither animal nor bird was permitted to approach the outer region of paradise, and Adam had to go out to meet them; so the serpent cunningly learned, through questioning Eve, the character of paradise, what it was and how it was ordered. When the accursed one learned how the…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden,
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1Now the serpent was the most crafty of all the brutes on the earth, which the Lord God made, and the serpent said to the woman, Wherefore has God said, Eat not of every tree of the garden?
— Genesis 3:2 —
3but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God 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.