Genesis 3:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

but 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.

American Standard Version (1901)

but 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.

Common English Bible

but not the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden. God said, ‘Don’t eat from it, and don’t touch it, or you will die.’”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Yet truly, from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of Paradise, God has instructed us that we should not eat, and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we may die."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.

Genesis 3:3 Cross References

Genesis 20:6

Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me; therefore I did not let you touch her.

Genesis 3:2

And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;

Genesis 3:4

But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die.

1 Chronicles 16:22

saying, “Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!”

Job 1:11

But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse thee to thy face.”

Job 19:21

Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

Job 2:5

But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.”

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a man not to touch a woman.

2 Corinthians 6:17

Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you,

Colossians 2:21

“Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch”