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  2. Forbidden fruit - Wikipedia

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    Nothing in the Bible indicates that the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge was an apple. [ 11 ] The larynx , specifically the laryngeal prominence that joins the thyroid cartilage , in the human throat is noticeably more prominent in males and was consequently called an Adam's apple , from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden ...

  3. Orlah - Wikipedia

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    The prohibition on orlah fruit (lit. "uncircumcised" fruit) is a command found in the Bible not to eat fruit produced by a tree during the first three years after planting. [1] In rabbinical writings, the orlah prohibition (Hebrew: איסור ערלה) is counted as one of the negative commandments among the 613 commandments. Outside of the ...

  4. Figs in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    The fig tree is the third tree to be mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible.The first is the Tree of life and the second is the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve used the leaves of the fig tree to sew garments for themselves after they ate the "fruit of the Tree of knowledge", [1] when they realized that they were naked.

  5. Parable of the barren fig tree - Wikipedia

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    The vinedresser, who is Jesus, does not fail and has offered to cultivate it and so it will produce fruit. The owner is an absentee landlord, only visiting his vineyard once a year. The law regarding first fruits, Leviticus 19:23–25, [9] forbids eating fruit from a tree in its first three years. The vinedresser has disposed of the fruit ...

  6. Cursing of the fig tree - Wikipedia

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    Most scholars believe that the Gospel of Mark was the first gospel and was used as a source by the authors of Matthew and Luke. [12] Mark uses the cursing of the barren fig tree to bracket and comment on the story of the Jewish temple: Jesus and his disciples are on their way to Jerusalem when Jesus curses a fig tree because it bears no fruit; in Jerusalem he drives the money-changers from the ...

  7. Apple (symbolism) - Wikipedia

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    The unnamed fruit of Eden thus became an apple under the influence of the story of the golden apples in the Garden of Hesperides. As a result, the apple became a symbol for knowledge, immortality, temptation, the fall of man and sin. According to the Bible, there is nothing to show the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge was necessarily an ...

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  9. Christian dietary laws - Wikipedia

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    The only dietary restrictions specified for Christians in the New Testament are to "abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meat of strangled animals" (), teachings that the early Church Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen, preached for believers to follow.