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Genesis 3:22

And Yahweh elohim is saying, `Behold, the Red-one has become as one from himself,146 to perceive good one and ruined-one. And now, a corner,146b he is sending forth his hand, and he has taken hold also of the Woods of the Living-ones, and he has eaten, and he has lived to the concealed-one.`147

Footnote:

146b

Strong's #6434 פֵן pen. Masculine form of pinnah meaning, corner. In the feminine פִנָּה pinnah (#6438) it represented the chief or cornerstone (cf. Isa. 19:13, 28:16)  This word was always mistaken for Strong's #6435, פֵן pen, which means lest, removal. So the translation of Genesis 3:22 was forced, and the result was a brutalized, confused reading that made the verse an incomplete thought with an abrupt change to another one in the following verse.