The snake’s response is to deny the emphatic warning of God by repeating the emphatic form and attaching a negative particle to the front of it, ‘you will not surely die’. Here he fills in what the woman glossed over. He then goes on further to fill in what was omitted by the statements of the woman in failing to identify the tree. The free is called what it is because it enables one to become like God, knowing good and evil. That this actually happens seems to be confirmed by verse 22. However,