I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

Break the arm of the wicked and evil man! Hold him accountable for his wicked deeds, which he thought you would not discover.

You cause my friends and neighbors to keep their distance; those who know me leave me alone in the darkness.

lest the Lord see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.”

for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil.”

The man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was both wise and beautiful, but the man was harsh and his deeds were evil. He was a Calebite.

Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not enter your brother’s house in the day of your disaster; a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away.

The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food. (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)

And the Lord God said, “Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.