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Since we have no recording of God speaking directly and only to Eve, it is far safer to go with the text we have.

The woman’s testimony doesn’t speak of God speaking only to her, but rather to both of them because of the plural “you”. And it is biblical to just go with the text:

but God did say, ‘You (plural) must not eat fruit

It is better to assume that Adam told Eve the prohibition not God.

Again why would Adam tell Eve what she could eat when God already told her and why would he tell her what she couldn’t eat when they were only given permission to eat fruit with seed? And why would Adam tell her when God told her, as she said God did?

Therefore we conclude that Eve did not quote the prohibition correctly. She dropped ‘any’ from “we may eat from the fruit of (any) tree in the garden… This is an important omission since it already shows that God seemingly isn’t as generous as he first was.

Let’s look at this again:
The woman said to the serpent,
A “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,
B 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”

The woman says “God said” after she answers the serpent’s question about the garden trees. At this point she is not quoting God. And her answer was correct since she was told that she and her husband could have ALL trees with seed on the face of the earth which must include the garden trees. She was simply answering the serpent’s question on the trees of the garden. The serpent didn’t ask about all the trees on the face of the earth but rather about the garden trees.

She didn’t drop the word “any” since she was giving the information that she knew which was not what God gave to Adam to eat (trees of the garden). She knew that they could both eat from the trees in the garden since they were given all trees on the face of the earth.

If she dropped the word “any” then she surley left of the rest of the trees on the face of the earth outside of the garden! Now that’s a ridiculous notion. All she was doing was answering the serpent’s question about the garden trees, but she wasn’t quoting God at that point.

This is an important omission since it already shows that God seemingly isn’t as generous as he first was.

God was sooo generous that he gave her trees on the entire EARTH!! Do you really think she didn’t know this and just forgot how generous God was to her when he gave them both food to eat on the whole earth?

Do you really think that she forgot God gave her all trees on the earth and so now she thinks that she can only eat from trees in the garden? She was only answering the serpent’s question on the garden trees.

Next Eve adds ‘neither shall you touch it’ which is not in the recorded account we have of God’s actual words. This too is important for it now shows that God is crueller than before. So the serpent’s crafty question has begun to make Eve believe that God first of all is ‘stingy’ and second of all he is a harsh God, not even being allowed to touch the fruit. Now we know that it wasn’t the ‘touching’ of the fruit that caused the fall but the ‘eating’, (Gen 3:6-7) which is precisely what is predicted in Gen 2. So Eve was not correct by telling the serpent they couldn’t even touch it.