the Garden of Eden

noun phrase

in the Bible
: the garden where Adam and Eve first lived

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Heidi Klum as the Garden of Eden in 2006 Among Klum's more inspired Halloween costume ideas, the model dressed as the apple and serpent that tempted Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Madeline Boardman, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024 There weren’t apples in Mesopotamia, for instance, so the tempting fruit in the Garden of Eden story was more likely a fig. Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024 The Book of Genesis doubled down not long after tagging biblical Eve as the agent of the fall from grace in the Garden of Eden. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024 Just think of the serpent in the Garden of Eden who misrepresented God's command not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil to entice the first humans to do just that. Pia Lauritzen, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the Garden of Eden 

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“The Garden of Eden.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Garden%20of%20Eden. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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