To whom the woman answered, We eat of the fruit of trees that be in paradise;
And God commanded to him and said, Eat thou of each tree of paradise;
forsooth eat thou not of the tree of knowing of good and of evil; for in whatever day thou shalt eat thereof, thou shalt die by death.
soothly God commanded to us, that we should not eat of the fruit of the tree, which is in the midst of paradise, and that we should not touch it, lest peradventure we die.
Strong vengeance is to them, by the likeness of a serpent; as of a deaf snake, and stopping his ears.