Editing Fall of man (section)

===Immortality===
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[[Exegesis#Christianity|Christian exegetes]] of Genesis 2:17<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|2:17|NRSV}}</ref> ("for in the day that you eat of it you shall die", also known as the "commandment to life"), have applied the [[day-year principle]] to explain how Adam died within a day. Psalms 90:4,<ref>{{bibleverse|Psalms|90:4}}</ref> 2 Peter 3:8,<ref>{{bibleverse|2 Peter|3:8}}</ref> and Jubilees 4:29–31<ref>{{bibleverse|Jubilees|4:29–31}}</ref> explain that, to [[God in Christianity|God]], one day is equivalent to a thousand years and thus Adam died within that same "day".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wesley.nnu.edu/biblical_studies/noncanon/ot/pseudo/jubilee.htm |title=The Book of Jubilees |access-date=2009-03-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090224002549/http://wesley.nnu.edu/biblical_studies/noncanon/ot/pseudo/jubilee.htm |archive-date=2009-02-24 }} Online translation of Jubilees</ref> The Greek [[Septuagint]], on the other hand, has "day" translated into the Greek word for a twenty-four-hour period ({{langx|grc|ἡμέρα|hēméra|label=none}}).

According to [[Meredith Kline]], the death threatened in Genesis 2:17 is "not physical death but eternal perdition (later called 'second death')."<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Kline |first=Meredith G. |title=Genesis: A New Commentary |publisher=Hendrickson Publishers Marketing |year=2016 |isbn=9781619708525 |location=Peabody, Massachusetts}}</ref>{{Rp|page=20}} This is because, in [[covenant theology]], the "curse" aspect of the commandment to life is balanced by its blessing, which is "glorified eternal life", symbolised by the tree of life ({{Bibleverse|Genesis|2:9|KJV}}) and the [[Sabbath]] ({{Bibleverse|Genesis|2:2|KJV}}).<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=|pages=19–20}}

According to the Genesis narrative, during the [[antediluvian]] age, human longevity approached a [[millennium]], such as the case of [[Adam]] who lived 930 years. Thus, to "die" has been interpreted as to become mortal.{{sfn|Kugel|1999|pp=50–51}} However, the grammar does not support this reading, nor does the narrative: Adam and Eve are expelled from the Garden lest they eat of the second tree, the [[Tree of life (biblical)|tree of life]], and gain immortality.<ref>{{Bibleverse|Genesis|3:22}}</ref><ref>[[Harry Orlinsky]]'s Notes to the NJPS Torah</ref>