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object of irresistable temptation and disobedience in the first biblical narrative

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The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel de Oude and Peter Paul Rubens

In Abrahamic religions, forbidden fruit is a name given to the fruit growing in the Garden of Eden that God commands mankind not to eat. In the Biblical story of Genesis, Adam and Eve disobey God and commit the original sin, eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and are exiled from Eden:

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