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"Yahveh Elohim took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden, to work it and to guard it. And Yahveh Elohim commanded the man saying: You may freely eat of every tree in the garden. But you must not eat of the Tree of Knowledge of good and bad, for on the day that you eat from it you shall surely die." Genesis 2:15-17
Adam nevertheless came to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. He was expelled from the Garden of Eden and was condemned to toil the remainder of his life, to grow his own food.
Several questions present themselves on the above:
1. Adam was warned that he would die on the day that he ate from the tree. Why does the Torah record that he lived the very long life span of nine hundred and thirty years? (Genesis 5:5)
2. Why was he punished at all? He claimed that Eve gave him the forbidden fruit: "The woman whom You gave to be with me - she gave me from the tree and I ate." Genesis 2:12 There is no statement in the text that suggests that Adam knew what he was actually eating in the first place.
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