Genesis 3:5

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.

a. NLT: “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.”

b. NIV: “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

c. YLT: for God doth know that in the day of your eating of it -- your eyes have been opened, and ye have been as God, knowing good and evil.'

d. Amplified Bible: For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing the difference between good and evil and blessing and calamity.

e. Septuagint: For God knew that in whatever day ye should eat of it your eyes would be opened, and ye would be as gods, knowing good and evil.

f. Stone Edition Torah/Writings/Prophets: for God knows that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and bad.

1. “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened…”

a. For God [430 * ‘elohiym] [Strong: plural of 433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative:--angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.]

b. doth know [3045 * yada] [Strong: a primitive root; to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow):--acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.]

c. that in the day [3117 * yowm] Strong: from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb):--age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.]

d. ye eat [398 * ‘akal] [Strong: a primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively):--X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.]

e. your eyes [5869 * ‘ayin] [Strong: a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape):--affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).]

f. shall be opened [6491 * paqach] [Strong:  a primitive root; to open (the senses, especially the eyes); figuratively, to be observant:--open.]

2. “…and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”

a. ye shall be as gods [430 * ‘elohiym] [Strong: plural of 433; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative:--angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.]

b. knowing [3045 * yada] [Strong: a primitive root; to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow):--acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.]

c. good [2896 * towb] [Strong: from 2895; good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):--beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ((-favoured)).]

d. evil [7451 * ra’] [Strong: from 7489; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral):-- adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).]

1). Having been born in 1950 and having grown up in the sixties, I can’t help but draw a similarity between the lie that was told to our first parents and the deception that was initially told to the youths who got caught up in the drug culture. Here is a note from the University of Virgina concerning those times.

a). “One of the major social changes brought about by the sixties was the widespread use of illicit drugs, primarily the hallucinogens, marijuana and LSD. Before this time, marijuana was primarily used by jazz musicians and hip characters in the inner cities. The Beats, consorting with and trying to emulate the jazz musicians, began using marijuana, and references to so-called mind-expanding drugs began appearing in Beat poems, novels, essays, and in popular protest songs as early as the mid-fifties. LSD, which was virtually unknown to American society in the early sixties and still legal until 1966, gained widespread recognition as a result of the very public exploits of so-called acid gurus, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey. By the mid-sixties, seemingly overnight, marijuana and LSD use was common across the country, especially among the young. Many books were written to explain or vilify this phenomenon, many others to justify the use of these drugs. Proponents looked to religious ceremonies of Native Americans where peyote and mescaline were used, to references of marijuana use for spiritual and medicinal purposes in ancient texts, and to books like Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, where Huxley writes of his experimentation with mescaline in Mexico. Other more harmful drugs followed cocaine, heroin, amphetamines and barbiturates, and the idea of using mind-expanding drugs to gain insight into the world gave way to plain recreational, often harmful use. Popular musicians such as Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix died as a result of recreational drug use. Ken Kesey, one of the earliest proponents of LSD use, denounced its curative powers as early as 1967, but by then its use was too widespread to be controlled.”  http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/drugs.html

2). The lyrics of many songs foretold a new day in humanity that was coming because of the so called different states of mind of a new generation.

a). Age of Aquarius, Galt McDermot, 1966

When the Moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars,
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
The age of Aquarius
Aquarius
Aquarius
Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind's true liberation
Aquarius
Aquarius
When the Moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars,
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
The age of Aquarius, Aquarius, Aquarius,
Aquarius, Aquarius, Aquarius

b). White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane, 1967

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell them a hookah smoking caterpillar has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small
When the men on the chess board
get up and tell you where to go
And you just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the white knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "Off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head

c). Journey to the center of the mind/Amboy Dukes, 1968

Leave your cares behind come with us and find The pleasures of a journey to the center of the mind
Come along if you care Come along if you dare Take a ride to the land inside of your mind
Beyond the seas of thought beyond the realm of what Across the streams of hopes and dreams where things are really not
Come along if you care...
But please realise you'll probably be surprised For it's the land unknown to man Where fantasy is fact So if you can, please understand You might not come back
Come along if you care Come along if you dare Take a ride to the land inside and you'll see
How happy life could be if all of mankind Would take the time to journey to the center of the mind
Would take the time to journey to the center of the mind Center of the mind

3). The lies told to my generation were just like the lie told to our first parents because the lies came from the father of lies, the devil. The lie told to our first parents, “you shall be as gods”, carried with it far more consequences. One of the hardest things I had to work through after I got born again was to quit listening to the music that led me down a road of destruction. Not every song from that kind of music is evil, but most of the music I listened to was twisted in its message, the musicians who sang them were the cheerleaders, shouting lyrical encouragements to me and other to abandon good and pursue evil and then rejoice in it. Nonetheless, for me to make a clear break I knew in my heart I had to quit listening to all of it and by the grace of God I got off the train I was on.

a) Hellbound Train, Andy Silvester, Kim Simmonds. 1972

Hellbound train, I'm on it's track
Too late now to turn my back
Conductor coming, ticket in his hand
Come to claim my soul, take me to his land

Hellbound train, I been so wrong
Too late now I'm moving on
Conductor standing, watch in his hand
Got to get aboard, take you to his land

I'm going down the road on the Hellbound train
Take a long look lady 'cause you won't see me again
Take a last look lady, yes hard and long
'Cause I'm going down the road on the Hell, Hellbound train

Hellbound train, driving slow
Move on down to the Hell below
Conductor please won't you lend a hand?
Got to get on board, take me to your land

Yes I know I've been so wrong
Too late now I'm moving on
Hellbound train, I'm on it's track
Moving down I can't look back

I'm going down the road on the Hellbound train
Take a last look lady 'cause you won't see me again
Take a long look, long look
'Cause I'm going down the road on the Hell, Hellbound train

Down the road on the Hellbound train
Take a long look lady 'cause you won't see me again
Take a last look lady, hard and long
'Cause I'm going down the road on the Hell, Hell, Hellbound train

Lost and flying down the road
On the Hellbound train
Lost and flying down the road
On the Hellbound train
Hand and hand with the devil