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The twentieth verse of chapter three in the book of Genesis labels Eve as "the mother of all Living". One way this can be interpreted is literally, meaning Eve was the original ancestor of the whole human race. A second interpretation claims that Eve bore the imperfections in human nature such as fear, greed, and insecurity when she first ate from the tree of knowledge. Additionally, having eaten from the tree of knowledge Eve would know the pain of childbirth and thereafter women throughout history and literature have been portrayed as having matriarchal nurturing characteristics. This would not be so, had Adam been the first to eat from the forbidden tree and man been the one to give birth to human nature. ... Males would be the sex with the motherly characteristics that Eve possessed as the bearer of all living things. ...
These assumed male and female roles may have been greatly influenced by the story of Adam
and Eve from the Bible, particularly the lines describing how Eve seduced Adam into
eating the forbidden fruit.
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