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Moses 3:17 · Genesis 2:17

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Pearl of Great Price Moses 3:17
"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, nevertheless, thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee; but, remember that I forbid it, for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
Old Testament Genesis 2:17
"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."

Shared words: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it

The single prohibition, with a Moses insertion. Both open 'But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil' with the prohibition and close 'thou shalt surely die' — Genesis reads 'in the day that thou eatest', Moses drops the that. Moses 3:17 inserts 'nevertheless, thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee; but, remember that I forbid it' -- a clause with no Genesis 2:17 counterpart. Divergence in the shared ending: Genesis 'in the day that thou eatest'; Moses 'in the day thou eatest' (no 'that'). The inserted choice-clause is the point moses.md already ties to the Book of Mormon's fall-doctrine; here it is a Moses-rendering fact, not scored.

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