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a snake

Some scholars think the snake represents Satan. Other scholars think the snake was a real snake, and that Satan was the one who was speaking through it.

Did God really tell you not to eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?

The snake asked this question to cause the woman to think about the things that God told her not to do, instead of the things he said she could do.