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The '''Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil''' appears in the [[Christian]] [[Bible]] as a key element in [[the fall]] of man from [[God]]'s grace. When God created [[Adam]] in the [[Garden of Eden]] he gave him permission to eat from any tree except that of the Tree of Knowledge.
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The '''Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil''' appears in the Book of [[Genesis]] as a key element in [[the fall]] of man from [[God]]'s grace. When God created [[Adam]] in the [[Garden of Eden]] he gave him permission to eat from any tree except that of the Tree of Knowledge.
    
''Genesis2:17  But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death. <ref>http://www.newadvent.org/bible/gen002.htm</ref>''
 
''Genesis2:17  But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death. <ref>http://www.newadvent.org/bible/gen002.htm</ref>''
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But Adam did eat the fruit of the tree and was cast out of paradise.  
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But Adam did eat the fruit of the tree after being induced to do so by Eve, and both of them were cast out of paradise.  
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The Bible does not really say what sort of tree it was, but it is historically portrayed as an apple tree.  
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The Bible does not really say what sort of tree it was, but it is historically portrayed as an apple tree; more likely, it was a fig tree.  
     
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