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Apple is the forbidden fruit. Tempting, seductive and ill get you kicked out of paradise.



You might be right about forbidden fruit, but Apples aren't mentioned in Genesis at all. It turns out that the first reference to the Apple in the Torah is this:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+32:1...

Based on 40% of the verses in the Bible that mention Apples being in the Song of Solomon, Apple is definitely a naughty little fruit. :D


That's interesting. Did you know that apple's original logo depicts Isaac Newton under an apple tree?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Apple_fir...


Song of Solomon 8:5 (New International Version, ©2010)

   Friends

 5 Who is this coming up from the wilderness 
   leaning on her beloved?

   She

   Under the apple tree I roused you; 
   there your mother conceived you, 
   there she who was in labor gave you birth.




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