The tree in the midst of the garden
Read the full text in our reader
ἀπὸ δὲ καρποῦ τοῦ ξύλου ὅ ἐστιν ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ παραδείσου, εἶπεν ὁ θεός Οὐ φάγεσθε ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ οὐδὲ μὴ ἅψησθε αὐτοῦ, ἵνα μὴ ἀποθάνητε.
But at the one tree — "the tree that is in the midst of the garden," identified in 2:9 as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, standing beside the tree of life — she adds to the command a clause God never spoke: "neither shall you touch it." It is a small addition, made perhaps in the spirit of caution, that the serpent will use against her in the very next verse.
Open The Septuagint 3.3 in the full reader
Always open passages in the reader
You are reading a page of the The Septuagint — the whole book is free in our interlinear reader.
The Great Library Project presses the classics in their original languages, glossed word by word — free to read, always. Browse the whole library.
Also on our shelves:
The Septuagint 3.3 — The Great Library Project interlinear edition · greatlibraryproject.com/book/septuagint/3.3/