OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 22

Genesis 3:22

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The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”

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Genesis 3:22 in context

Genesis 3:19–24

19

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground,

for you were taken out of it.

For you are dust,

and you shall return to dust.”

20

The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

21

The LORD God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

22
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The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”

23

Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

24

So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

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