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* Adam and Eve eat an apple ( ch.

40 ); whereas the traditional association of the Fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil ( Book of Genesis 2: 9, 17 ; 3: 5 ) with the apple rests on the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Latin, where both ' apple ' and ' evil ' are rendered as ' malum '.