Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
In the
Book of Genesis, chapters two and three, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (and occasionally translated as the Tree of Conscience) was the
tree in the middle of the
Garden of Eden (2:9) from which
God directly forbade
Adam (and by extension
Eve) to eat (2:17). The other tree in the middle of the garden was the
Tree of life. Genesis 2:16 states that God allowed them to eat of the fruit of any other tree in the garden, which would include the Tree of Life. When Eve, and then Adam, ate the
forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge (3:6), after being tempted by a serpent (3:1–5), they became aware of their nakedness (3:7), and were banished from the garden and forced to survive through
agriculture "by the sweat of [their] face" .
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Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
[Judaic] The exact fruit that Adam and Eve ate was a matter of rabbinic debate. Candidates put forward include grapes, Pomegranates, etrogs, and figs. One scholar even argued for wheat, but his colleagues ridiculed him for that claim. Fig has been the most obvious choice, because only a few verses later it is described how God made garments of fig leaves (Gen. 3:7).