For God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Psalm 12:4 - Tree of Life Version May Adonai cut off all flattering lips— a tongue bragging big things. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: who is lord over us? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Those who say, With our tongues we prevail; our lips are our own [to command at our will]–who is lord and master over us? American Standard Version (1901) Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: who is lord over us? Common English Bible that says, “We’re unbeatable with our tongues! Who could get the best of us with lips like ours?” Catholic Public Domain Version Look upon me and listen to me, O Lord my God. Enlighten my eyes, lest I fall asleep forever in death, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Consider, and hear me, O Lord my God. Enlighten my eyes that I never sleep in death: |
For God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
May a slanderer not endure in the land. May calamity hunt down a violent man.
But Pharaoh said, “Who is Adonai, that I should listen to His voice and let Israel go? I do not know Adonai, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”
The mouth of the righteous bears the fruit of wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be cut out.
Then they said: “Come, let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely Torah from the kohen will not be lost, nor will counsel from the wise, nor will the word from the prophet. Come, let’s strike at him with the tongue, and pay no attention to any of his words.”
You, generation, heed Adonai’s word! “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of thick darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam. We won’t come to You any more’?
Now if you are ready, at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp and pipes and all kinds of music you must fall down and worship the image that I have made. But if you do not worship, you will immediately be thrown into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire! Then what god will be able to deliver you out of my hands?”
He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in the Temple of God, proclaiming himself that he is God.