Parallel Verses

Amplified

For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened [that is, you will have greater awareness], and you will be like God, knowing [the difference between] good and evil.”

New American Standard Bible

For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

King James Version

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Holman Bible

“In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

International Standard Version

"Even God knows that on the day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened and you'll become like God, knowing good and evil."

A Conservative Version

For God knows that in the day ye eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

American Standard Version

for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

Bible in Basic English

For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.

Darby Translation

but God knows that in the day ye eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as God, knowing good and evil.

Julia Smith Translation

For God is knowing in the day of your eating from it, and your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

King James 2000

For God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For God knows that on the day you [both] eat from it, then your eyes will be opened and you [both] shall be like gods, knowing good and evil."

Modern King James verseion

for God knows that in the day you eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

but God doth know, that whensoever ye should eat of it, your eyes should be opened and ye should be as God and know both good and evil."

NET Bible

for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil."

New Heart English Bible

for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

The Emphasized Bible

For God doth know, that in the day ye eat thereof, then shall your eyes be opened, - and ye shall become like God, knowing good and evil.

Webster

For God doth know, that in the day ye eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened: and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

World English Bible

for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

Youngs Literal Translation

for God doth know that in the day of your eating of it -- your eyes have been opened, and ye have been as God, knowing good and evil.'

Themes

Adversary » Power of » Tempting to disobedience

Adversary » The arch deceiver attempts to ruin men » By lying promises

Ambition » Exemplified » Adam and eve

Ambition » Instances of » Eve

Arch deceiver » The arch deceiver attempts to ruin men » By lying promises

Bible stories for children » The woman who exchanged her home and all she had for an apple

Common delusions » Thinking that sin will give fulness of life

Craftiness » Instances of » Satan, in the temptation of eve

Deceit » Exemplified

Fall of man » Through temptation of the devil

Falsehood » Instances of » Satan » In deceiving eve

Influence » Evil » Instances of » Satan over adam and eve

Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Desire for, a source of temptation

Knowledge » Danger of » Desire for, a source of temptation

Man » Disobeyed God by eating part of the forbidden fruit

Presumption » Instances of » Satan, when he said to eve, "you will surely not die,"

Satan » Vanquished promises of ultimate triumph » Tempting to disobedience

Satan » The arch deceiver attempts to ruin men » By lying promises

Satan's » Work » Tempting to disobedience

Serpent » Power of » Tempting to disobedience

Serpent » Satan appears to eve in the form of

Serpent » The arch deceiver attempts to ruin men » By lying promises

Sin » How sin entered into the world

Temptation » Exemplified

Temptation » Yielding to temptation » Adam

Tempter » Power of » Tempting to disobedience

Tempter » The arch deceiver attempts to ruin men » By lying promises

Trees » Of knowledge

Truth » Of God » Is denied by » The Devil

the Truth of God » Is denied by » The Devil

Unbelief » Exemplified

Unbelief » Instances of » Eve

Woman » Deceived by satan

Women » Why women should not have authority over men

Women » Fall of, and curse upon

satan's Work » Tempting to disobedience

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

that in the day
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

ye eat
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

פּקח 
Paqach 
Usage: 20

and ye shall be as gods
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Genesis 3:5

References

Morish

Smith

Images Genesis 3:5

Prayers for Genesis 3:5

Context Readings

The Fall

4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die! 5 For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened [that is, you will have greater awareness], and you will be like God, knowing [the difference between] good and evil.” 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise and insightful, she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.


Cross References

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord God,

“Because your heart is lifted up
And you have said and thought, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods
In the heart of the seas’;
Yet you are [only] a man [weak, feeble, made of earth] and not God,
Though you [imagine yourself to be more than mortal and] think your mind is as [wise as] the mind of God—

Genesis 2:17

but [only] from the tree of the knowledge (recognition) of good and evil you shall not eat, otherwise on the day that you eat from it, you shall most certainly die [because of your disobedience].”

Genesis 3:7

Then the eyes of the two of them were opened [that is, their awareness increased], and they knew that they were naked; and they fastened fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

Genesis 3:10

He said, “I heard the sound of You [walking] in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

Genesis 3:22

And the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit), knowing [how to distinguish between] good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take from the tree of life as well, and eat [its fruit], and live [in this fallen, sinful condition] forever”—

Exodus 5:2

But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.”

Exodus 20:7

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain [that is, irreverently, in false affirmations or in ways that impugn the character of God]; for the Lord will not hold guiltless nor leave unpunished the one who takes His name in vain [disregarding its reverence and its power].

1 Kings 22:6

Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or should I not?” And they said, “Go up, for the Lord has handed it over to the king.”

2 Chronicles 32:15

So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive or mislead you like this, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to rescue his people from my hand or the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God rescue you from my hand!’”

Psalm 12:4


Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own; who is lord and master over us?”

Isaiah 14:14


‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.’

Jeremiah 14:13-14

But I said, “Alas, Lord God! Behold, the [false] prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword nor will you have famine, but I [the Lord] will give you lasting peace in this place.’”

Jeremiah 28:2-3

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

Ezekiel 13:2-6

“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy from their own inspiration, ‘Hear the word of the Lord!

Ezekiel 13:22

Because you disheartened the righteous with falsehood when I did not cause him grief, but have encouraged the wicked not to turn from his wicked way and preserve his life,

Ezekiel 28:9


‘Will you still say, “I am a god,”
In the presence of him who kills you?
But you are [only] a man [made of earth] and not God,
In the hands of those who wound and profane you.

Ezekiel 29:3

Speak and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God,

“Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
The great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers,
[Boastfully] declaring, ‘My Nile is my own, and I have made it for myself.’

Daniel 4:30

The king said thoughtfully, ‘Is not this the great Babylon which I myself have built as the royal residence and seat of government by the might of my power and for the honor and glory of my majesty?’

Daniel 6:7

All the commissioners of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors have consulted and agreed together that the king should establish a royal statute and enforce an injunction that anyone who petitions (prays to) any god or man besides you, O king, during the next thirty days, shall be thrown into the den of lions.

Matthew 6:23

But if your eye is bad [spiritually blind], your whole body will be full of darkness [devoid of God’s precepts]. So if the [very] light inside you [your inner self, your heart, your conscience] is darkness, how great and terrible is that darkness!

Acts 12:22-23

The assembled people kept shouting, “It is the voice of a god and not of a man!”

Acts 26:18

to open their [spiritual] eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness and release from their sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified (set apart, made holy) by faith in Me.’

2 Corinthians 4:4

among them the god of this world [Satan] has blinded the minds of the unbelieving to prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that, even as the serpent beguiled Eve by his cunning, your minds may be corrupted and led away from the simplicity of [your sincere and] pure devotion to Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

For such men are counterfeit apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

who opposes and exalts himself [so proudly and so insolently] above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he [actually enters and] takes his seat in the temple of God, publicly proclaiming that he himself is God.

Revelation 13:4

They fell down and worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority to the beast; they also worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like (as great as) the beast, and who is able to wage war against him?”

Revelation 13:14

And he deceives those [unconverted ones] who inhabit the earth [into believing him] because of the signs which he is given [by Satan] to perform in the presence of the [first] beast, telling those who inhabit the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded [fatally] by the sword and has come back to life.

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