Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, New Living Translation “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied. English Standard Version And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, Berean Standard Bible The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, King James Bible And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: New King James Version And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; New American Standard Bible The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; NASB 1995 The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; NASB 1977 And the woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; Legacy Standard Bible And the woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; Amplified Bible And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, Christian Standard Bible The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden. Holman Christian Standard Bible The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden. American Standard Version And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat: Aramaic Bible in Plain English And the woman said to the Serpent, “From the fruit of all of the trees that are in Paradise we shall eat: Brenton Septuagint Translation And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, Contemporary English Version The woman answered, "God said we could eat fruit from any tree in the garden, Douay-Rheims Bible And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat: English Revised Version And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat: GOD'S WORD® Translation The woman answered the snake, "We're allowed to eat the fruit from any tree in the garden Good News Translation "We may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden," the woman answered, International Standard Version "We may eat from the trees of the garden," the woman answered the serpent, JPS Tanakh 1917 And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; Literal Standard Version And the woman says to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we eat, Majority Standard Bible The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, New American Bible The woman answered the snake: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; NET Bible The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard; New Revised Standard Version The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; New Heart English Bible And the woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat, Webster's Bible Translation And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: World English Bible The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, Young's Literal Translation And the woman saith unto the serpent, 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we do eat, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Serpent's Deception1Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’ ” 2The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, 3but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’ ”… Cross References Genesis 2:16 And the LORD God commanded him, "You may eat freely from every tree of the garden, Genesis 2:17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die." Genesis 3:3 but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.'" Treasury of Scripture And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: serpent. Psalm 58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Jump to Previous Eat Fruit Garden Serpent TreesJump to Next Eat Fruit Garden Serpent TreesGenesis 3 1. The serpent deceives Eve.6. Both she and Adam transgress the divine command, and fall into sin. 8. God arraigns them. 14. The serpent is cursed. 15. The promised seed. 16. The punishment of mankind. 21. Their first clothing. 22. Their expulsion from paradise. Verses 2, 3. - And the woman said unto the serpent. Neither afraid of the reptile, there being not yet any enmity among the creatures; nor astonished at his speaking, perhaps as being not yet fully acquainted with the capabilities of the lower animals; nor suspicions of his designs, her innocence and inexperience not predisposing her to apprehend danger. Yet the tenor of the reptile's interrogation was fitted to excite alarm; and if, as some conjecture, she understood that Satan was the speaker, she should at once have taken flight; while, if she knew nothing of him or his disposition, she should not have opened herself so freely to a person unknown. "The woman certainly discovers some uuadvisedness in entertaining conference with the serpent, in matters of so great importance, in so familiar a manner" (White). We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden. (1) Omitting the Divine name when recording his liberality, though she remembers it when reciting his restraint; (2) failing to do justice to the largeness and freeness of the Divine grant (cf. with Genesis 2:16); - which, however, charity would do well not to press against the woman as symptoms of incipient rebellion. But 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. An addition to the prohibitory enactment, which may have been simply an inaccuracy in her understanding of Adam's report of its exact terms (Kalisch); or the result of a rising feeling of dissatisfaction with the too great strictness of the prohibition (Delitzsch), and so an indication "that her love and confidence towards God were already beginning to waver" (Keil); or a proof of her anxiety to observe the Divine precept (Calvin); or a statement of her understanding "that they were not to meddle with it as a forbidden thing" (Murphy). Lest ye die. Even Calvin here admits that Eve begins to give way, leading פֶן־ as forte, with which Macdonald appears to agree, discovering "doubt and hesitancy in her language; but - (1) the conjunction may point to a consequence which is certain - indeed this is its usual meaning (cf. Genesis 11:4; Genesis 19:5; Psalm 2:12); . . . Hebrew The womanהָֽאִשָּׁ֖ה (hā·’iš·šāh) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female answered וַתֹּ֥אמֶר (wat·tō·mer) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 559: To utter, say the serpent, הַנָּחָ֑שׁ (han·nā·ḥāš) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5175: A serpent “We may eat נֹאכֵֽל׃ (nō·ḵêl) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural Strong's 398: To eat the fruit מִפְּרִ֥י (mip·pə·rî) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 6529: Fruit of the trees עֵֽץ־ (‘êṣ-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 6086: Tree, trees, wood of the garden, הַגָּ֖ן (hag·gān) Article | Noun - common singular Strong's 1588: An enclosure, garden Links Genesis 3:2 NIVGenesis 3:2 NLT Genesis 3:2 ESV Genesis 3:2 NASB Genesis 3:2 KJV Genesis 3:2 BibleApps.com Genesis 3:2 Biblia Paralela Genesis 3:2 Chinese Bible Genesis 3:2 French Bible Genesis 3:2 Catholic Bible OT Law: Genesis 3:2 The woman said to the serpent (Gen. 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