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 # good and evil
 
-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/jit/figs-merism]])
+"everything, including both good and evil" 
 
 # in the midst of the garden
 
-"in the middle of the garden." The two trees may not have been in the exact center of the garden.
+"in the middle of the garden."