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21 lines
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# the tree of life
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"the tree that gives people life"
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# life
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Here this means "eternal life" or life that does not end.
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# the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
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"the tree that gives people the ability to understand both good and evil" or "the tree that makes people who eat its fruit able to know good things and bad things"
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# good and evil
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This is a figure of speech that refers to both extremes and everything in between. Alternate translation: "everything, including both good and evil" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-merism]])
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# in the midst of the garden
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"in the middle of the garden." The two trees may not have been in the exact center of the garden.
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