In the Bible, the Tree of Knowledge was one of two trees in the middle of the garden of Eden, from which God forebade humans to eat. The other was the Tree of Life. When humans did eat from the tree, after being tempted by a serpent, they became knowledgable of their sin, and were punished by God for their disobedience. The Tree of knowledge is commonly portrayed in art and literature as an apple tree, for lack of an accurate description.
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nearest stone, and motioned to her to liedown.html">down. Almah prepared to
hand as a last farewell. Then without a word she laid herself down
rousing me from my stupor, impelling me to action, filling my brain
in the air. Another moment and the blow would have fallen. But my
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already there, having burst through the astonished crowd, and Almah
front of her and stood at bay, with my only thought that of defending
followed by a wild, abrupt outcry from half a million people--the roar
throng, whose accumulated volume arose in one vast thunder-clap of
on far away in endless reverberations. It was like the roar of mighty
vast multitude I shrank back for a moment. As I did so I looked down,
all that countless throng of human beings there was not one who was
to a common centre. On everyside there was a multitudinous sea of
violent agitation, as though all were possessed by one common impulse
than that I was the object of their wrath, and that they were all with
Almah for the slaughter of the nightmare hag.
All this was the work of but a few moments. And now as I stood there
aware of a more imminent danger. On the top of the pyramid, at the
it was over them that I had rushed to Almah's side. But these.
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