Genesis 3:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”

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.’ ”

They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,