Genesis 3:2 (BSB)

The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,

From Genesis 3. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Genesis 3:2

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Genesis 3:1-5: We have here an account of the temptation with which Satan assaulted our first parents, to draw them into sin, and which proved fatal to them. Here observe, I. The tempter, and that was the devil, in the shape and likeness of a serpent. 1. It is certain it was the devil that beguiled Eve.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Genesis 3:2: And the woman said unto the serpent,.... Or to him that spoke in the serpent, which she might take to be a messenger from heaven, a holy angel: had she known who it was, she might be chargeable with imprudence in giving an answer, and carrying on a conversation with him; and yet even supposing this, she might have a good design in her answer...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Genesis 3:2: the woman said, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden--In her answer, Eve extolled the large extent of liberty they enjoyed in ranging at will amongst all the trees--one only excepted, with respect to which, she declared there was no doubt, either of the prohibition or the penalty.
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Genesis 3:1-5: The man, whom God had appointed lord of the earth and its inhabitants, was endowed with everything requisite for the development of his nature and the fulfilment of his destiny. In the fruit of the trees of the garden he had food for the sustenance of his life; in the care of the garden itself, a field of labour for the exercise of his physical...