Genesis 3:1

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1Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the Lord God had made. And 3:1 The relationship between Satan and the serpent is not made clear, but Satan is identified with the serpent later in Rev 12:9, 14, 15, and 20:2. It seems difficult to believe that Eve would not have been suspicious of a talking creature, but at this point in time Eve probably knew next to nothing about animals; and in any case, the serpent, as it existed before the curse (v 14), was a very different creature from the reptile that is familiar to us today.the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, “Can it really be that God has said, ‘You shall not eat from 3:1 Or every.any tree of the garden’?” [Rev 12:9-11]