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Genesis 3:5

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.
Genesis 3:5 · King James Version

In other versions

  • 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.

    ASV

  • 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.

    BBE

  • 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.

    DBY

  • 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."

    WEB

  • 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.'

    YLT

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

    ENG

  • 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.

    WBT

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

    BSB

In context

3But 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, lest ye die.

4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

5For 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.

6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

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