God makes his commandment against sin to Adam perfectly clear: "And shun the bitter consequence: for know, / The day thou eat'st thereof, my sole command / Transgressed, inevitably thou shalt die" (9.328-330). ... Adam chooses his lot in life by saying, "The link of nature draws me: flesh of flesh, / Bone of my bone thou art" (9.914-915)". ...

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