Don

Anon.,

The man is charged with 2 charges, listening to the voice of his wife and eating from the tree.  Listening to the voice of his wife was not forbidden and is normally a good thing, so one needs to try to discern how this could be 1) a bad thing and 2) violating a previous command.  My solution (and others including Piper and Cheryl I believe) is that this refers to the man JUST listening to the voice when he knew the serpent was wrong (as he was there with her) and this is violating a previous command as he was given the charge to guard the garden.