Tree of Knowledge

Tree of Knowledge
Tree of Know|ledge, the
according to a story in the Old Testament of the Bible, a tree in the Garden of ↑Eden whose fruit Adam and Eve were forbidden by God to eat. When they disobeyed God and ate the fruit God forced them to leave the Garden of Eden.

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