Jeremiah 5:4NET Bible
I thought, "Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the LORD demands. They do not know what their God requires of them.
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Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth."
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but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die."
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The serpent said to the woman, "Surely you will not die,
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for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil."
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And the LORD God said, "Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."