Bible Dictionary
Tree of the knowledge of good and evil
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil stood in Eden, and God forbade Adam and Eve to eat its fruit. Their disobedience brought sin and death into human experience.
Definition
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil stood in Eden beside the tree of life. God forbade Adam and Eve to eat its fruit, but they disobeyed the command.
Biblical Usage
Their disobedience is presented as the entrance of sin and death into human experience and the heritage of Adam’s descendants.
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
Stood in the midst of the garden of Eden, beside the tree of life (Gen. 2, 3). Adam and Eve were forbidden to take of the fruit which grew upon it. But they disobeyed the divine injunction, and so sin and death by sin entered our world and became the heritage of Adam’s posterity. (See ADAM.)