Genesis 3:5

Your eyes shall be opened. Satan proceeded to give a plausible reason for God’s prohibition. He charged God with: (1) Envy of His creatures’ happiness. Satan said in effect, “Depend upon it, it is not through any fear of your dying from its fruit that the tree has been prohibited, but through fear of your becoming rivals of your Master Himself.”

(2) Falsehood. Satan charged that God lied when He said death would follow the eating of the fruit. God’s requirements were placed in the most heinous and reprehensible light. By mixing truth with falsehood Satan tried to confuse the mind of Eve, in order to make it difficult for her to distinguish between God’s words and his. The expression “in the day ye eat thereof” sounded similar to what God had spoken (ch. 2:17), as did also the phrase “knowing good and evil.” The promise, “Your eyes shall be opened,” implied a present limitation of sight that could be removed by following the serpent’s advice.

Ye shall be as gods. The same word translated in the KJV “gods,” ’elohim, is rendered “God” in vs. 1, 3, and 5. The translators of the KJV here followed the LXX and the Vulgate. The correct rendering is, “Ye shall be as God.” This reveals most sharply the blasphemous nature of Satan’s words (see Isa. 14:12-14) and the full gravity of his deception.