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καὶ ἐνετείλατο Κύριος ὁ θεὸς τῷ Ἀδὰμ λέγων Ἀπὸ παντὸς ξύλου τοῦ ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ βρώσει φάγῃ·
Ἀδάμ first appears here as the man's name (before this he has been simply ὁ ἄνθρωπος). βρώσει φάγῃ, "with eating you shall eat" — a cognate dative doubling the verb's own root for emphasis, a Hebraism translating the infinitive absolute אָכֹל תֹּאכֵל, "you shall surely eat."
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