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However, there are myriad modern scholarly interpretations regarding the term הדעת טוב ורע(Hada'at tov wa-ra 'the knowledge of good and evil') in Genesis 2–3, such as wisdom, omniscience, sexual knowledge, moral discrimination, maturity, and other qualities. Robert Alter emphasizes the point that when God forbids the man to eat from that particular tree, he says that if he does so, he is 'doomed to die.' The Hebrew behind this is in a form regularly used in the Hebrew Bible for issuing death sentences. Given the context of disobedience to God, other interpretations of the implications of this phrase also demand consideration.

However, if 'tree of the knowledge of good and evil' is to be understood to mean a tree whose fruit imparts knowledge of everything, this phrase does not necessarily denote a moral concept. In Greek literature, Homer also uses the device when Telemachus states that 'I know everything, the good and the evil' although the words used – ἐσθλός for 'good' and χερείων for 'evil' – are better termed 'superior' and 'inferior'. This is seen in the Egyptian expression 'evil-good', which is normally employed to mean 'everything'. This may be an example of the type of figure of speech known as merism, a literary device that pairs opposite terms together in order to create a general meaning, so that the phrase 'good and evil' would simply imply 'everything'. The phrase in Hebrew, טוֹב וָרָע ( 'tov wa-raʿ') literally translates as 'good and evil'.

Consequently, God expels them from the garden. In Genesis 3, a serpent persuades Eve to eat from its forbidden fruit and she also lets Adam taste it. Genesis 2 narrates that God places the man, Adam, in a garden with trees of whose fruits he may eat, but forbids him to eat from 'the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.' God forms woman, Eve, after this command is given. Alternatively, some scholars have argued that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is just another name for the tree of life. In Judaism and Christianity, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ( Tiberian Hebrew: עֵץ הַדַּעַת טוֹב וָרָע, romanized: ʿêṣ had-daʿaṯ ṭōḇ wā-rāʿ, Latin: Lignum scientiae boni et mali) is one of two specific trees in the story of the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2–3, along with the tree of life. Adam and Eve - Paradise, the fall of man as depicted by Lucas Cranach the Elder, the Tree of knowledge of good and evil is on the right For other uses, see Tree of Knowledge (disambiguation).

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