Chapter 10 Scriptures
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Gen 2.16, 17
Jehovah God laid this command upon the man: "You may eat to satisfaction from every tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, for in the day you eat from it you will surely die."

Genesis 3:1-24, paraphrased:
Now the serpent . . . began to say to the woman: "Is it really so that God said you must not eat from every tree of the garden?" The woman replied to the serpent: "We may eat of the trees of the garden, but as for the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'you must not eat from it, no, you must not touch it, that you do not die.'" Then the serpent said to the woman: "You will not die at all. In fact God knows that in the very day you eat from it your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be like God, knowing good and bad."
Then the woman saw that the tree was . . . something to be longed for to the eyes . . So she began taking its fruit and eating it. Later she gave some also to her husband when with her and he began eating it. Then the eyes of both of them became opened and they began to realize that they were naked. . . .
Later they heard the voice of Jehovah in the garden . . . and the man and his wife went into hiding from His face . . . And Jehovah kept calling to the man . . . Finally he said: "Your voice I heard in the garden, but I was afraid because I was naked and so I hid myself." At that he said: "Who told you that you were naked? From the tree from which I commanded you not to eat have you eaten?" The man replied: "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree and so I ate." Then Jehovah said to the woman: "What is this you have done?" To this the woman replied: "The serpent— it deceived me and so I ate." . . .
Then God said to the woman: "I shall greatly increase the pain of your pregnancy; in birth pangs you will bring forth children, and your craving will be for your husband, and he will dominate you." And to Adam he said: "Because you listened to your wife's voice and took to eating from the tree concerning which I gave you this command, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground on your account. In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life. Thorns and thistles it will grow for you . . . In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return."
After this Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she had to become the mother of everyone living. . . And Jehovah God went on to say: "Here the man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad, and now so that he may not reach out and take fruit also from the tree of life, and eat and live to time indefinite,—" With that Jehovah God put him out of the garden of Eden . . . and posted at the east of the garden the cherubs and the flaming blade of a sword that was turning continually, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 5.5 So all the days of Adam amounted to nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

Ephesians 2.1, 12
. . . you were dead in your trespasses and sins . . . and you had no hope and were without God in the world.

Job 24.19, 20
The drought, also the heat, snatch away the snow waters;
So does Sheol those who have sinned!
The womb will forget him, the maggot will sweetly suck him,
He will be remembered no more.
And unrighteousness will be broken just like a tree.

Ephesians 2.1-3
[God made you alive] though you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you at one time walked according to the system of things of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit that now operates in the sons of disobedience. Yes, among them we all at one time conducted ourselves in harmony with the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and its way of thinking, and we were naturally children of wrath even as the rest.

1 Tim 5.6
But the one that goes in for [immoral] sensual gratification is dead though she is living.

Job 3.11-19
Why from the womb did I not proceed to die? [Why did I not] come forth from the belly itself and then expire? Why was it that knees confronted me, and why breasts that I should take suck? For by now I should have lain down that I might be undisturbed; I should have slept then; I should be at rest with kings and counselors of the earth, those building desolate places for themselves, or with princes who have gold, those who fill their houses with silver; Or, like a hidden miscarriage, I should not come to be, like children that have seen no light. There the wicked themselves have ceased from agitation, and there those weary in power are at rest. Together prisoners themselves are at ease; they actually do not hear the voice of one driving them to work. Small and great are there the same, and the slave is set free from his master.

Psalm 89.48
What able-bodied man is there alive who will not see death? Can he provide escape for his soul from the hand of Sheol?

1 Cor 15.32
If . . . I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus [in struggle to be true to his faith], of what good is it to me? If the dead are not to be raised up, "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we are to die."