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Genesis 3:2

Genesis 3:2
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And the woman said unto the serpent,.... Or to him that spoke in the serpent, which she might take to be a messenger from heaven, a holy angel: had she known who it was, she might be chargeable with…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Genesis 3:1-5

We have here an account of the temptation with which Satan assaulted our first parents, to draw them into sin, and which proved fatal to them. Here observe,

I. The tempter, and that was the devil, in…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

the woman, &c. The woman is quick to correct the error into which she fancies the serpent has fallen, and to defend the generosity of the Lord.

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