Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and
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
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."
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.
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.”
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
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
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 » Yielding to temptation » Adam
Tempter » Power of » Tempting to disobedience
Tempter » The arch deceiver attempts to ruin men » By lying promises
Truth » Of God » Is denied by » The Devil
the Truth of God » Is denied by » The Devil
Women » Why women should not have authority over men
Topics
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 3:5
Prayers for Genesis 3:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Fall
4 And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die. 5 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. 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her, and h
Cross References
Ezekiel 28:2
Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, Thus says lord LORD: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou have said, I am a god. I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas. Yet thou are man, and not God, though thou did set thy h
Genesis 2:17
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it. For in the day that thou eat of it thou shall surely die.
Genesis 3:7
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Genesis 3:10
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked. And I hid myself.
Genesis 3:22
And LORD God said, Behold, the man has become as one of us--to know good and evil--and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever--
Exodus 5:2
And Pharaoh said, Who is LORD, that I should hearken to his voice to let Israel go? I do not know LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.
Exodus 20:7
Thou shall not take the name of LORD thy God in vain, for LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
1 Kings 22:6
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up, for LORD will deliver it into the hand of the k
2 Chronicles 32:15
Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you after this manner, neither believe ye him. For no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much
Psalm 12:4
who have said, With our tongue will we prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord 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
Then I said, Ah, lord LORD! Behold, the prophets say to them, Ye shall not see the sword, nor shall ye have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.
Jeremiah 28:2-3
Thus speaks LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, 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 thou to those who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear ye the word of LORD.
Ezekiel 13:22
Because with lies ye have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive.
Ezekiel 28:9
Will thou yet say before him who slays thee, I am God? But thou are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds thee.
Ezekiel 29:3
Speak, and say, Thus says lord LORD: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lays in the midst of his rivers, that has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.
Daniel 4:30
The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
Daniel 6:7
All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god o
Matthew 6:23
But if thine eye is bad, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Acts 12:22-23
And the populace shouted, The voice of a god, and not of a man.
Acts 26:18
to open their eyes to turn about from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, for them to receive remission of sins and a lot among those who have been sanctified by faith in me.
2 Corinthians 4:4
in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, in order for the light of the good-news of the glory of the Christ (who is a likeness of God) not to shine forth to them.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear lest somehow, as the serpent enticed Eve by his craftiness, so your thoughts might be corrupted from the simplicity in the Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such men are FALSE apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves into apostles of Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:4
who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or an object of worship, so as for him to sit in the temple of God, as God, displaying himself that he is God.
Revelation 13:4
And they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast. And they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like the beast, and who is able to war against it?
Revelation 13:14
And it leads my kind astray (those dwelling on the earth) because of the signs that were given it to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast that had the sword-wound and live