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NASB | Deuteronomy 1:39 'Moreover, your little ones who you said would become a prey, and your sons, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, shall enter there, and I will give it to them and they shall possess it. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Deuteronomy 1:39 'Moreover, your little ones whom you said would become prey, and your sons, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall enter Canaan, and I will give it to them and they shall possess it. |
Bible Question:
The tree of life is in Gen 2:9, and in Rev 2:7, one location the garden at Eden, the other being the Paradise of God. Any support for the current location of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? God "barred the way" leading to the tree of life. Adam sent out of the garden to the land he was taken from. The land and the garden are separate at this juncture, but what about accessing the forbidden tree or its fruit? Curious in that, by all practicality, man by his natural mind finds the forbidden fruit, and subsequent self determination based upon what we deem good and evil, attractive and perhaps 'edible' to this day. Not a question regarding the generational propagation of original sin, and the associated curse. We find Deuteronomy 1:39 indicating that those who left Egypt knew good and evil, but the children from the wilderness did not. Hence I put the question figuratively in context of those that were in Egypt. No claim made here, by my question, that the tree or fruit was actually in Egypt. Looking for life in the location of the forbidden tree (forgive my weak and feeble punch line). |
Bible Answer: Dear Carlos, I'm confused. On what basis would we imagine that it had moved? Why wouldn't it still be in the garden? Where are we told that it moved? Furthermore, just because its name contains the words knowledge, good, and evil, wouldn't mean that every reference to these words are connected. We'd not, for example, think that every garden, every mountain, every river, etc. were connected in some way. Deuteronomy 1:39 is speaking about the children, providentially spared from the outbreak of sin that resulted in the forty years of wandering. There's an old adage, sometimes called the Golden Rule of Biblical Interpretation, "when the plain sense makes good sense seek no other sense." In Him, Doc |