Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Genesis 3:3

But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, (c) lest ye die.

(c) In doubting God's warnings she yielded to Satan.

Continues after advertising

See also Genesis 3:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 3:3. _NEITHER SHALL YE TOUCH IT_] Did not the woman _add_ this to what God had before spoken? Some of the Jewish writers, who are only serious on comparative trifles, state that as soon...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - Section III - The Fall - The Fall 1. נחשׁ _nachash_ “serpent; related: hiss,” Gesenius; “sting,” Mey. ערוּם _'ārûm_ “subtle, crafty, using craft for defence.” 7. תפר _tāpar_ “sew, stitch, tack...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 3 The Fall of Man _ 1. The serpent and the woman (Genesis 3:1)_ 2. The fall and the immediate results (Genesis 3:6) 3. Jehovah Elohim questions Adam (Genesis 3:8) 4. His question to the w...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Among the animals formed by Yahweh, in His first attempt to provide man with a companion, was the serpent; at that time either a quadruped or holding itself erect. It was eminent among its fellows for...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    GOD HATH SAID, YE SHALL NOT EAT OF IT, NEITHER SHALL YE TOUCH IT. The clause, "neither shall ye touch it," is added by the woman to the charge of Genesis 2:17. It shows the construction that she put u...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    NEITHER SHALL YE TOUCH IT. This sentence is added. Compare Genesis 2:18; Genesis 2:17. There is another word in this verse we need to consider, and it is the word "touch". God's command to Eve was; "n...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _of the fruit of the tree_, &c. The woman speaks of only one tree, and that one is in the midst of the garden. She does not mention it by name. In Genesis 2:9, where two trees are mentioned, the one w...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    NEITHER SHALL YE TOUCH IT— Words which some expositors have supposed to contain a prevarication on the part of Eve; but they express no more than a strong confirmation of the former clause....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART TWELVE: THE BEGINNING OF MORAL EVIL ON EARTH (Genesis 3:1-8) 1. _The Generations of the Heavens and of the Earth._ We need to recall here briefly the significance of this phrase. The term genera...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BUT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE GARDEN, GOD HATH SAID, YE SHALL NOT EAT OF IT, NEITHER SHALL YE TOUCH IT, LEST YE DIE._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PARADISE AND THE FALL In this famous passage we possess a wealth of moral and spiritual teaching regarding God and man. The intention of the writer is evidently to give an answer to the question: How...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 3 ADAM AND EVE DO AN EVIL THING V1 The snake was the cleverest wild animal that the *Lord God had made. The snake said to the woman, ‘Is it true...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE. The _Bereshit Rabba_ argues that Adam and Eve remained in their original state of innocence for six hours only. Others have supposed...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ מִ פְּרִ֣י הָ עֵץ֮ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE FALL Genesis 3:1 PROFOUND as the teaching of this narrative is, its meaning does not lie on the surface. Literal interpretation will reach a measure of its significance, but plainly there is more...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    MAN AND WOMAN, TEMPTATION Genesis 2:18; Genesis 3:1 Human love is God's best gift to man. Without it even Eden would not be Paradise. That Adam was able to name the animals, affixing a title suggeste...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here begins the second section of the Book of Genesis. As the first has answered questions concerning creation, the second replies to questions asked in the presence of sin and suffering and sorrow. T...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    God would have been very pleased if he had never needed a remedy for sin. However, man chose the path of sin. Satan's grand lie caused him to transgress God's will. Jesus called Satan "a murderer from...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Not touch it. She exaggerates, through dislike of restraint, St. Ambrose. Or through reverence, she thought it unlawful to touch what she must not eat, lest perhaps, as if there could be any doubt. ...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. Observe, the woman had not lost sight of the commandme...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 3 we find what, alas! has always happened, and happened immediately when God has set up anything in the hands of responsible man disobedience and failure. So it was in Adam, so in Noah, so...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE, WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE GARDEN,.... This tree stood near the tree of life, as is highly probable, since that is described in the same situation, Genesis 2:9 she does...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. Ver. 3. _Neither shall ye touch it._] This is of the...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The woman said_ With a view to defend the conduct of her Maker toward them, against the insinuations of the tempter. _We may eat of the trees of the garden_ Of all the trees _except one._ It is only...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The serpent deceiueth Eue. 6 Mans shamefull fall. 9 God arraigneth them. 14 The serpent is cursed. 15 The promised Seed. 16 The punishment of Mankind. 21 Their first clothing. 22 Their castin...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Temptation and Fall...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. By exaggerating the prohibition of God, the devil inten...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    SECOND PART THE GENESIS OF THE WORLD-HISTORY, OF THE TRIAL, OF THE SIN OF MAN, OF THE JUDGMENT, OF DEATH, OF THE SALVATION-TRIUMPH, OF THE CONTRAST BETWEEN A DIVINE AND A WORLDLY TENDENCY IN HUMANITY...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FALL OF MAN The serpent is introduced in this chapter as being more cunning than all other beasts. This was evidently so just by the fact of Satan's using the serpent for his mouthpiece. It is not...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-5 Satan assaulted our first parents, to draw them to sin, and the temptation proved fatal to them. The tempter was the devil, in the shape and likeness of a serpent. Satan's plan was to draw our fi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    To wit, in order to the eating of it. Or the touch might be simply forbidden, or she might reasonably understand it to be forbidden in and by the prohibition of eating, because it was an occasion of s...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    This section of our book sets before us the breaking up of the whole scene on which we have been dwelling. It abounds in very weighty principles; and has, very justly, been, in all ages, resorted to a...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 3:3 fruit H6529 tree H6086 midst H8432 garden H1588 God H430 said H559 (H8804) eat H398 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And the woman said to the snake, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden. But God has said ‘you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, nor shall you t...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Genesis 3 Consider: (1) some of the consequences, and (2) some of the corroborative proofs of the fall. I. Beside and behind the outward consequences, there were inward results far more terrible. A d...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Genesis 3:1. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Genesis 3:1. _Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?_ H...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Temptation of Eve and entrance of sin into the race. God's covenant with fallen man and the expulsion from Eden. CHARACTERS: God, Satan, Adam, Eve. CONCLUSION: Doubt lies at the root of all...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 3:1. _The serpent._ The rabbins and the christian doctors have largely sported their opinions here. St. Cyril contends that Satan assumed the figure of the serpent, and so talked with the woma...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field_ THE FIRST GREAT TEMPTATION I. THAT THE HUMAN SOUL IS FREQUENTLY TEMPTED BY A DIRE FOE OF UNUSUAL SUBTLETY. 1. The tempter of human soul...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 3:1 The sudden arrival of a speaking SERPENT presents a challenge to the human couple. Their choice to disregard God’s instructions is an act of willful rebellion that has terr...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 3:2 The woman’s response echoes the divine instruction given in Genesis 2:16 (see note on 2:17), although she fails to identify the tree clearly

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 3:1_ THE FIRST GREAT TEMPTATION It is well for the military general to study the plan and the history of great battles that have been fought in the past, i...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 3:1 How long the paradisiacal state of innocence and felicity continued the historian does not declare, probably as not falling within the scope of his immediate design. Psalms 49:...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden (Genesis 3:1)? Now...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    But. Genesis 2:16 Genesis 2:17 touch. Genesis 20:6 Exodus 19:12 Exodus 19:13

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE CROSS IN GENESIS Genesis 2:22; Genesis 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS If Jesus Christ, in the purposes of God, was given to die before the world was formed, or before man was created; and if man, when h...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE FIRST WOMAN Genesis 2:20; Genesis 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we enter into the Bible story of creation there is something that makes it all seem so real, so definite, and so certain. Evolution...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE TEMPTATION Genesis 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are some very vital questions which naturally tome to most minds. These we will seek to answer. 1. DID GOD KNOW THAT MAN WOULD SIN WHEN HE CREATE...

Continues after advertising