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Originally Posted by OBW
But to claim that Eve was not around to hear God speak about the tree of knowledge of good and evil and/or the tree of life is a tough call in a story that begins with an extremely shortened version of the whole of creation and then starts part of it over again.
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It's pretty clear from the Genesis account that God gave that commandment to Adam, who passed it on to Eve. That's why the Serpent was effective when he asked, "Has God said?" The Serpent undermined Adam's credibility at least as much as God's.
Obviously Paul interpreted it this way, since he wrote that
Eve was deceived, but
Adam transgressed God's command.