Unlike the tree of life, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil does not appear anywhere else in the Hebrew Bible or in other ancient Semitic cultures. However, the phrase "knowledge of good and evil" does appear elsewhere in the Bible (e.g., and ).

Meaning of good and evil

The phrase in Hebrew, ??? ??? literally translates as "good and evil". This may be an example of the type of figure of speech known as merism,

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