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Desiring this knowledge, the woman eats the forbidden fruit and gives some to the man, who also eats it. They become aware of their nakedness and make fig-leaf clothes, and hide themselves when God approaches. When confronted, Adam tells God that Eve gave him the fruit to eat, and Eve tells God that the serpent deceived her into eating it.
Eve's being taken from his side implies not only her secondary role in the conjugal state (1 Corinthians 11:9), but also emphasizes the intimate union between husband and wife, and the dependence of her to him. In Christian tradition, Eve is a prefigurement of the Virgin Mary who is also sometimes called "the Second Eve".
The serpent seduces Eve, who swears to give the fruit to eat to Adam too. The serpent places in the fruit the poison of his wickedness, which is lust. When Eve eats it, she discovers that she is naked. All the trees of the Garden lose their leaves. Only a fig tree, the plant she ate of, still has leaves, and she hides her shame with its leaves ...
Eve (Ḥawwāʼ; Arabic: حواء ) is the "mother of humanity". [70] The creation of Adam and Eve is referred to in the Qurʼān, although different Qurʼanic interpreters give different views on the actual creation story (Qurʼan, Surat al-Nisaʼ, verse 1). [71] In al-Qummi's tafsir on the Garden of Eden, such a place was not entirely earthly.
The painting depicts Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the biblical paradise, after having consumed the forbidden apple. Both Adam and Eve appear as small figures surrounded by nature in all her exuberance. Trees, typical of Europe, are accompanied by paired animals from Africa and the New World. [2]
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[1] [15] Eve yielded to temptation and ate of the fruit; when Adam learned that Eve had done so, he ate the fruit too. [1] [16] Because they ate of the forbidden fruit, Adam and Eve underwent the "fall". [1] As God had promised, the bodies of Adam and Eve became mortal and they became subject to physical death, as well as sickness and pain. [1]
A New Year's Eve tradition historically practiced in Spain and across Latin America has become a trend on social media, and entails eating 12 grapes under a table at the stroke of midnight.