Genesis 3:22
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
KJV
et ait : Ecce Adam quasi unus ex nobis factus est, sciens bonum et malum : nunc ergo ne forte mittat manum suam, et sumat etiam de ligno vitæ, et comedat, et vivat in æternum.
Vulgate
Καὶ εἶπεν Κύριος ὁ θεός Ἰδοὺ Ἀδὰμ γέγονεν ὡς εἷς ἐξ ἡμῶν, τοῦ γινώσκειν καλὸν καὶ πονηρόν· καὶ νῦν μή ποτε ἐκτείνῃ τὴν χεῖρα καὶ λάβῃ τοῦ ξύλου τῆς ζωῆς καὶ φάγῃ, καὶ ζήσεται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.
LXX
And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever—
ASV
וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֗ים הֵ֤ן הָֽ/אָדָם֙ הָיָה֙ כְּ/אַחַ֣ד מִמֶּ֔/נּוּ לָ/דַ֖עַת ט֣וֹב וָ/רָ֑ע וְ/עַתָּ֣ה פֶּן יִשְׁלַ֣ח יָד֗/וֹ וְ/לָקַח֙ גַּ֚ם מֵ/עֵ֣ץ הַֽ/חַיִּ֔ים וְ/אָכַ֖ל וָ/חַ֥י לְ/עֹלָֽם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
22 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶחָ֖ד
'chd
adjective · 970×
אָדָ֖ם
'dm
noun · 545×
גַּם
gm
adverb · 764×
וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
חַי
chy
verb · 502×
חָֽי
chy
verb · 20×
ט֣וֹב
tvb
verb · 562×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
יִּקַּ֣ח
yqch
verb · 963×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
ם
m
verb · 811×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
נִ֨י
ny
pronoun · 313×
נִי
ny
verb · 838×
עֵ֣ץ
'ts
noun · 324×
עַתָּ֗ה
'th
adverb · 433×
עוֹלָֽם
'vlm
noun · 427×
פֶּן
pn
conjunction · 132×
רָ֑ע
r'
verb · 664×
Intertextual echoes
Quoted or echoed by 2 later passages.
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Rev 22:14 · allusion"Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city."Genesis: access to the tree of life — those who wash their robes
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Rev 22:2 · echo"In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."Genesis: tree of life — access restored in the new Jerusalem
Typology
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. Whence then does He begin? And what kind of foundations of His new polity does He lay for us? Let us hearken with strict attention unto what is said. For though it was spoken unto them, it was written for the sake also of all men afterwards. And accordingly on this account, though He had His disciples in His mind in His public preaching, yet unto them He limits not His sayin…
All these things we know from the testimonies of Holy Scripture as well as from the effects of the persons, especially from those we feel within ourselves. The testimonies of the Holy Scriptures which teach us to believe in this Holy Trinity are written in many places of the Old Testament, which need not be enumerated but only chosen with discretion. In the book of Genesis God …
Cross-references
- Gen 1:26 — And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
- Gen 1:26 — And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
- Gen 2:9 — And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evi
- Gen 2:9 — And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evi
- Gen 3:5 — For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
- Gen 3:5 — For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
- Gen 11:6 — And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
- Gen 11:6 — And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
- Gen 11:7 — Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
- Isa 6:8 — Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
- Isa 47:12 — Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
- John 6:48 — I am that bread of life.
- Prov 3:18 — She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
- Prov 3:18 — She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
- Prov 15:4 — A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
- Rev 2:7 — He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
- Rev 2:7 — He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
- Rev 22:2 — In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were fo
- Rev 22:2 — In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were fo
- Rev 22:14 — Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
- Rom 5:12 — Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: