Genesis 3:2
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And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat:

serpent.

Psalm 58:4 Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:

Context
The Serpent's Deception
1Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise? 2And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat:3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.…
Cross References
Genesis 2:16
And he commanded him, saying: Of every tree of paradise thou shalt eat:

Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.

Genesis 3:3
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.

Lexicon
The woman
הָֽאִשָּׁ֖ה (hā·’iš·šāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

answered
וַתֹּ֥אמֶר (wat·tō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

the serpent,
הַנָּחָ֑שׁ (han·nā·ḥāš)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5175: A serpent

“We may eat
נֹאכֵֽל׃ (nō·ḵêl)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 398: To eat

the fruit
מִפְּרִ֥י (mip·pə·rî)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6529: Fruit

of the trees
עֵֽץ־ (‘êṣ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6086: Tree, trees, wood

of the garden,
הַגָּ֖ן (hag·gān)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1588: An enclosure, garden


Additional Translations
The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat:

And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden,

And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;

And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat:

And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,

And the woman saith unto the serpent, 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we do eat,
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