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  2. Serpents in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Genesis refers to a serpent who triggered the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden in Eden (Gen 3:1–20). Serpent is also used to describe sea monsters . Examples of these identifications are in the Book of Isaiah where a reference is made to a serpent-like dragon named Leviathan ( Isaiah 27:1 ), and in ...

  3. Serpent seed - Wikipedia

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    The doctrine of the serpent seed, also known as the dual-seed or the two-seedline doctrine, is a controversial and fringe Christian religious belief which explains the biblical account of the fall of man by stating that the Serpent mated with Eve in the Garden of Eden, and the offspring of their union was Cain.

  4. Garden of Eden - Wikipedia

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    Expulsion from Paradise, painting by James Tissot (c. 1896–1902) The Expulsion illustrated in the English Junius manuscript, c. 1000 CE. The second part of the Genesis creation narrative, Genesis 2:4–3:24, opens with YHWH-Elohim (translated here "the L ORD God") [a] creating the first man (), whom he placed in a garden that he planted "eastward in Eden": [22]

  5. Forbidden fruit - Wikipedia

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    The story of the Book of Genesis places the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden, where they may eat the fruit of many trees, but are forbidden by God to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. In Genesis 3, a serpent tempts the woman: And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

  6. Fall of man - Wikipedia

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    At first, Adam and Eve lived with God in the Garden of Eden, but the serpent tempted them into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which God had forbidden. [1] After doing so, they became ashamed of their nakedness and God expelled them from the Garden to prevent them from eating the fruit of the tree of life and ...

  7. Tree of the knowledge of good and evil - Wikipedia

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    Adam and Eve - Paradise, the fall of man as depicted by Lucas Cranach the Elder, the Tree of knowledge of good and evil is on the right. In Judaism and Christianity, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Tiberian Hebrew: עֵץ הַדַּעַת טוֹב וָרָע, romanized: ʿêṣ had-daʿaṯ ṭōḇ wā-rāʿ, [ʕesˤ hadaʕaθ tˤov wɔrɔʕ]; Latin: Lignum scientiae boni et mali ...

  8. Adam and Eve - Wikipedia

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    The first man and woman are in God's Garden of Eden, where all creation is vegetarian and there is no violence. They are permitted to eat the fruits of all the trees except one, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The woman is tempted by a talking serpent to eat the forbidden fruit, and gives some to the man, who eats also. [10]

  9. Eve - Wikipedia

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    In the expulsion from Eden narrative a dialogue is exchanged between a legged serpent and the woman (3:1–5). [22] The serpent is identified in 2:19 as an animal that was made by Yahweh among the beasts of the field. [23] The woman is willing to talk to the serpent and respond to the creature's cynicism by repeating Yahweh's prohibition from 2 ...