Genesis 2:16
Good News Translation
He told him, "You may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden,

New Revised Standard Version
And the LORD God commanded the man, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

Contemporary English Version
But the LORD told him, "You may eat fruit from any tree in the garden,

New American Bible
The LORD God gave the man this order: You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he commanded him, saying: Of every tree of paradise thou shalt eat:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he commanded him, saying: Of every tree of paradise thou shalt eat:

God.

1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat or rams.

thou mayest freely eat.

Genesis 2:9 And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 3:1,2 Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise? . . .

1 Timothy 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving:

1 Timothy 6:17 Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy)

Context
Man and Woman in the Garden
15And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it. 16And he commanded him, saying: Of every tree of paradise thou shalt eat:17But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.…
Cross References
Genesis 2:15
And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.

Genesis 3:2
And the woman answered him, saying: Of the fruit of the trees that are in paradise we do eat:

Genesis 3:3
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.

Genesis 2:15
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