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Tree of Knowledge, the
     
Tree of Knowledge, 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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