Genesis 2 – Line 00048

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INTRO

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But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it, dying you shall die.

RENDERING NOTES

“But from the tree…” renders the prepositional phrase וּמֵעֵץ (ume‘etz) with contrast to prior verse.

“The knowledge of good and evil” follows הַדַּעַת טוֹב וָרָע (hadda‘at tov vara), combining feminine noun with masculine adjectives.

“You shall not eat” translates לֹא תֹאכַל (lo to’khal), standard negated imperfect form.

Repetition of מִמֶּנּוּ (mimennu) — “from it” — frames both instruction and consequence.

“For in the day you eat…” reflects כִּי בְּיוֹם אֲכָלְךָ (ki beyom akholkha) — causal/temporal clause.

“Dying you shall die” is the emphatic Hebrew idiom מוֹת תָּמוּת (mot tamut) — infinitive absolute + imperfect verb.

INSERTION / HELPER WORD TRACKING

“But” inserted for contrastive sense, implied by context though not grammatically marked.

Repeated “from it” preserved as in original Hebrew structure.

No smoothing or omissions applied.

CONTEXTUAL PLACEMENT

This line completes the divine command that begins in 2:16.

Moves from permissive abundance to singular boundary.

Establishes a sacred limit that becomes central to the unfolding Eden narrative.

STRUCTURAL ALIGNMENT NOTES

Direct inversion of the permission formula in v.16 — akhol to’khel vs. lo to’khal.

Structural layering

• Instruction → Object → Consequence
• Contrast within divine voice — invitation then warning.

CAUTIONARY REMINDER

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