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Genesis 3:1

And the Serpent109 has become more prudent110 from all of a living-one of the Field whom Yahweh has made elohim, and he is speaking toward the Woman even though elohim has said she is not eating him from any wood of the Enclosure.110b

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Strong’s #6175, #6174, arum. naked, prudent.  Prudent, shrewd is a secondary meaning. Here the comparative function of the following preposition from all (מ כל) signfies the correct interpretation, as "more naked than" does not quite make sense.  The traditional "more crafty than" implies that all domesticated "animals of the field" are crafty/shrewd in some way, which is certainly not true.

“A fool in the Day, his vexation is being perceived, and he-who-conceals a dishonored-one is naked [arum].” (Prov. 12:16 RBT)

“A prudent [arum] red-one [adam] is he-who-conceals a perception…” (Prov. 12:23 RBT)

“Every prudent one [arum] is making in perception…” (Prov. 13:16 RBT)

“The wise one of the prudent one [arum] causes to understand his way…” (Prov. 14:8 RBT)

Moses spoke of two kinds of serpents--the one who bites, and the one who makes alive:

And Moses is making a serpent of bronze, and is placing him on the Ensign, and he has become; if the serpent has bitten a self eternal man, and he has looked expectingly toward the serpent of bronze—he has become alive. (Numbers 21:9 RBT)

"As Moses lifted up the serpent in the barren place, so the son of man must be lifted up" (John 3:14 RBT)

There are two sides to the same serpent. That is the idea of the serpent of himself, that encircles the all. Paul speaks of a serpent (the crafty one) deceiving Eve, but here the prudent serpent (second one) opens her eyes. The first discredits her. The second credits her. As the man makes so is he. He makes a snake, he is born of a snake. An offspring of vipers. The prudent snake therefore, is the one who sees himself.

"I fear lest how the serpent deceived Eve within the crafty one of himself, the perceptions of you all may be corrupted away from the singleness and purity into Anointed One" (2 Cor. 11:3 RBT)

"therefore be prudent as the serpents..." (Matt. 10:16 RBT)

Craftiness as related to "rolling the dice":

"that we might no longer be infants, tossed by waves, carried around by every wind of teaching, in the dice-playing of men, in craftiness toward the scheme of error." (Ephesians 4:14 RBT)