GEN 3:4 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) But the serpent said to the woman, “It’s not definite that you’ll die.

Key: khaki:verbs, red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Καὶ εἶπεν ὁ ὄφις τῇ γυναικί· οὐ θανάτῳ ἀποθανεῖσθε·
(Kai eipen ho ofis taʸ gunaiki; ou thanatōi apothaneisthe; )

OEB Then the snake said to the woman, ‘You will not die!

WEBBE The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,

WMBB (Same as above)

NET The serpent said to the woman, “Surely you will not die,

LSV And the serpent says to the woman, “Dying, you do not die,

FBV “You certainly won't die,” the serpent told Eve.

T4T The snake said to the woman, “No, you will certainly not die. God said that

LEB But the serpent said to the woman, “You shall not surely die.

BBE And the snake said, Death will not certainly come to you:

Moff No Moff GEN book available

JPS And the serpent said unto the woman: 'Ye shall not surely die;

ASV And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

DRA And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death.

YLT And the serpent saith unto the woman, 'Dying, ye do not die,

Drby And the serpent said to the woman, Ye will not certainly die;

RV And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

Wbstr And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

KJB-1769 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
(And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye/You_all shall not surely die: )

KJB-1611 [fn]And the Serpent said vnto the woman, Ye shall not surely die.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation and footnotes)

3:4 2.Cor. 11 3. 1.tim. 2.14.

Bshps And the serpent sayde vnto the woman: ye shall not dye the death.
(And the serpent said unto the woman: ye/you_all shall not dye the death.)

Gnva Then the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not die at all,
(Then the serpent said to the woman, Ye/You_all shall not die at all, )

Cvdl Then saide the serpent vnto the woman: Tush, ye shall not dye the death.
(Then said the serpent unto the woman: Tush, ye/you_all shall not dye the death.)

Wycl Forsothe the serpent seide to the womman, ye schulen not die bi deeth;
(Forsothe the serpent said to the woman, ye/you_all should not die by death;)

Luth Da sprach die Schlange zum Weibe: Ihr werdet mitnichten des Todes sterben;
(So spoke the Schlange for_the Weibe: You becomet mitnichten the Todes die;)

ClVg Dixit autem serpens ad mulierem: Nequaquam morte moriemini.
(Dixit however serpens to mulierem: Nequaquam morte moriemini. )

TTN Tyndale Theme Notes:

The Fall

Genesis 3 describes how human moral innocence collapsed through rebellion. What God declared as “very good” (Gen 1:31) was no longer completely so. Man and woman ate the fruit that promised knowledge of good and evil, thus breaking God’s command (2:16-17) and attempting to become like God (see 3:5). In doing so, they fell from their sinless state. Alienated from God, one another, and creation, they also became subject to death.

Consequently, all humans are “fallen”—born in sin, predisposed to sin (Gen 8:21; Job 4:17-21; Pss 51:5; 103:10; 143:2; Prov 20:9), and awaiting death. When the first man and woman ate the fruit in disobedience to God, they forfeited their own innocence and that of their children, the entire human race (Rom 5:12-14; 1 Cor 15:21-22, 45-49). The expression “original sin” denotes sin’s complete, universal infiltration into individual lives and human society as a result of human rebellion. As people yield to their inherited predisposition to sin, they become responsible for their own wrongdoing (Eccl 7:20; Rom 3:23).

The first man, Adam, introduced sin, but the “second Adam,” Jesus Christ, is sin’s antidote (1 Cor 15:3; 2 Cor 5:21). When Christ died as Redeemer, he made God’s salvation from sin available to all (John 3:16; Rom 1:16).

Passages for Further Study

Gen 3:1-19; 8:21; Exod 34:7; Job 4:17-21; Ps 51:5; Prov 22:15; Ezek 36:16-36; John 8:1-11; Rom 1:18–3:20; 5:12-21; 1 Cor 15:21-22; Gal 3:22; 5:17-24; Eph 2:1-10; 1 Jn 3:14

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