Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 3:3

3. But of the Fruit of the Tree, which is in the midst of the Garden, God hath said, ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it , lest ye dye

To wit, in order to the eating of it: Or, the touch might be simply forbidden, or she might reasonably understand it to be forbidden in and by the prohibition of eating, because it was an occasion of sin, and therefore to be avoided. For it is not probable that the Woman being not yet corrupted should knowingly add to God's Word, or malitiously insinuate the harshness of the precept.

Others, lest peradventure ye dye▪ as if she doubted of the truth of the threatning: Which seems not probable the Woman yet continuing in the state of [illegible: 1 word] ▪ and such doubting being evidently sinful, and the Hebrew particle Pen, doth not always imply a doubt, as▪ appeares from Psal▪ [illegible: 1+ letters]. 12. Isa. 27. 3. and 3[illegible: 1+ letters]. 18. compared with 2 King. 18. 3.