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R. Kent Hughes, respected pastor and author of many other commentaries in the Preaching the Word series, takes readers back to the beginning of the Bible and moves through Genesis with careful exegesis. He explores the superbly crafted structure of the book as well as the weighty themes it contains. For those who preach, teach, and study God’s Word, this exceptionally detailed work will reveal...

and Adam could take from the tree of life if he wanted it. Everything was there for him—everything he could possibly want. But God’s permission was paired with his prohibition: “but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (v. 17). To disobey and eat from this tree would bring sure death. Here we must note that this passage does not suggest that Adam was immortal and that, had he not sinned, he would live forever in the
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