When God made Adam and then Eve, he set them to live in Eden, a delightful Garden, which was theirs to use except for one tree, which they must not eat from. A snake, however, convinced them that the tree would make them divine, so one after the other they tasted its forbidden fruit.

The forbidden fruit did not make Adam and Eve divine, as the snake had promised. It made them ashamed and anxious, instead of carefree as they had been before. To ensure that this state did not last for ever, God banished them from Eden and the Tree of Life, until such time as they could safely return.

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