Who told the first lie in the Bible?


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God said to Adam,

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. Genesis 2:17

But Adam ate from that tree (3:6) and yet didn't die that day, but rather lived to be 930 years old (5:5). This is the first lie in the Bible - and it was made by God.


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