Parallel Verses

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.”

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.

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.

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

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 “No! You will not die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.


Cross References

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre: This is what the Lord God says:

Your heart is proud,
and you have said, ‘I am a god;
I sit in the seat of gods
in the heart of the sea.’
Yet you are a man and not a god,
though you have regarded your heart
as that of a god.

Genesis 2:17

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”

Genesis 3:7

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.

Genesis 3:10

And he said, “I heard You in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”

Genesis 3:22

The Lord God said, “Since man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”

Exodus 5:2

But Pharaoh responded, “Who is Yahweh that I should obey Him by letting Israel go? I do not know anything about Yahweh, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”

Exodus 20:7

Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God, because the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses His name.

1 Kings 22:6

So the king of Israel gathered the prophets, about 400 men, and asked them, “Should I go against Ramoth-gilead for war or should I refrain?”

They replied, “March up, and the Lord will hand it over to the king.”

2 Chronicles 32:15

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

Psalm 12:4

They say, “Through our tongues we have power;
our lips are our own—who can be our master?”

Isaiah 14:14

I will ascend above the highest clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”

Jeremiah 14:13-14

And I replied, “Oh no, Lord God! The prophets are telling them, ‘You won’t see sword or suffer famine. I will certainly give you true peace in this place.’”

Jeremiah 28:2-3

“This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

Ezekiel 13:2-6

“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are prophesying. Say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: Hear the word of the Lord!

Ezekiel 13:22

Because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies, even though I have not caused him grief, and because you have encouraged the wicked person not to turn from his evil way to save his life,

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’
in the presence of those who kill you?
Yet you will be only a man, not a god,
in the hands of those who kill you.

Ezekiel 29:3

Speak to him and say: This is what the Lord God says:

Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great monster lying in the middle of his Nile,
who says, ‘My Nile is my own;
I made it for myself.’

Daniel 4:30

the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great that I have built by my vast power to be a royal residence and to display my majestic glory?”

Daniel 6:7

All the administrators of the kingdom, the prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an edict that for 30 days, anyone who petitions any god or man except you, the king, will be thrown into the lions’ den.

Matthew 6:23

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness—how deep is that darkness!

Acts 12:22-23

The assembled people began to shout, “It’s the voice of a god and not of a man!”

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that by faith in Me they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified.’

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a complete and pure devotion to Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s sanctuary, publicizing that he himself is God.

Revelation 13:4

They worshiped the dragon because he gave authority to the beast. And they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to wage war against him?”

Revelation 13:14

He deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that he is permitted to perform on behalf of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image of the beast who had the sword wound and yet lived.

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