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Moses 4:11 · Genesis 3:5

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Pearl of Great Price Moses 4:11
"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."
Old Testament Genesis 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."

Shared words: 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

The serpent's promise, verbatim and identical across the two texts, with no divergence between Moses 4:11 and Genesis 3:5. The same clause also stands in the Book of Mormon (registered separately as pogp-mos-02, Moses 4:11 <-> 2 Nephi 2:18, where 2 Nephi reads singular 'as God'); this record is the Moses <-> Genesis leg, where both read plural 'as gods'.

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