Genesis 1-3

When God put the man (Adam) down in Eden, he commanded, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die."

Then after the serpent convinced the woman (Eve) to eat an apple and the woman convinced the man to also do so, God came back and said to the man, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, you shall note eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you should eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. by the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

My question comes from if God told Adam that he shall die after eating the apple than why hasn't he? Are God's punishments resulting in the death of the man, and if so, does he come back to life since he turns into dust and then returns?

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