You shall not surely die
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καὶ εἶπεν ὁ ὄφις τῇ γυναικί Οὐ θανάτῳ ἀποθανεῖσθε·
The serpent's first flat denial of God's word — the plain negation of the death-sentence attached to the tree (2:17, "in the day you eat of it you shall surely die"). This is the first lie in the story, and the model for every rationalization that follows: not an argument, simply a contradiction stated as fact.
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