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G-d took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden, to work
it and to guard it… G-d commanded the man saying: 'You may
freely eat of every tree in the garden. But you must not eat of
the Tree of Knowledge of good and bad, for on the day that you
eat from it you shall surely die' (2:15-17). The narrative
relates how Adam nevertheless came to eat from the Tree of
Knowledge. He was expelled from the Garden of Eden, and he was
condemned to toil the remainder of his life to grow his own food
as an agricultural laborer. Several questions present themselves
on the above: 1. Adam was warned that he would die on the day
that he ate from the tree. How come, therefore, that the Torah
records that he lived the very long life span of nine hundred
and thirty years (5:5)? 2. Why was he punished at all? He
claimed that Eve gave him the forbidden fruit: 'The woman whom
You gave to be with me - she gave me from the tree and I ate'
(2:12). There is no statement in