Genesis 2:16-17

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KJV

¹⁶ And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: ¹⁷ But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

See "Thou shalt not eat thereof..." for the difficulty of a literal reading.