8. How did Satan distort Jehovah’s words and motives?

⁸ Satan’s dishonesty was evident in the way he twisted Jehovah’s words and motives. “Is it really so that God said you must not eat from every tree?” he asked Eve. Satan pretended to be shocked, as if he were saying: ‘How could God be so unreasonable?’

Genesis 2:16, 17; 3:1,