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Genesis 3:3

וּ מִ פְּרִי הָ עֵץ אֲשֶׁר בְּ תֹוךְ הַ גָּן אָמַר אֶלֹהִים לֹא תֹאכְלוּ מִמֶּנּוּ וְ לֹא תִגְּעוּ בֹּו פֶּן תְּמֻתוּן
And from the fruit of the Wood straightly in the middle of the Enclosure elohim has said, 'You-all are not eating from ourselves, and you all are not touching in himself a corner, you-all are dying.'"111
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Pronouns “you” are in the plural. Notice she speaks of the wood “in the middle of the enclosure” which is previously noted as the Tree of the Living ones. Accordingly,

Faithful is the word, for if we have died-together, also we will live-together.” 2 Tim. 2:11 RBT 

This was Moses’ proclamation to Israel after giving them the Law:

I have caused to repeat in yourselves the Day אֶת-the Dual-Heavens and אֶת-the Earth of the Living-ones and the Death; I have given to your [sing.] faces the Kneeled-one and the Cursed-one. And you[sing.] have chosen in the Living-ones for the purpose that you[sing.] are living, אֶת-you [sing.] and your [sing.] seed.” Deut. 30:19 RBT

Touch and Die?

The Holy Mountain is the site where the Law is delivered. Mount Sinai is the mountain that man and behemah were prohibited from touching lest they die (Ex. 19:13). Mount Zion is the mountain that the Chosen are called to ascend and bring deliverance from (Obadiah 1:17,21, Ps. 48:2, Heb. 12:22). Mt. Sinai and Mt. Zion appear to be cryptically the same mountain. See note on Exodus 19:13—there the pronoun him is also used of the mountain, “No hand is touching in him”.

The order of the words of "no hand is touching in him" is relevant:

לא תגע בו יד

lit. is not touching in him a hand. This is the same order found in Genesis 3:3:

לא תגעו בו פן

lit. is not touching in him a corner