*ydʿ, ‘know; knowledge’ Humanity sins in Genesis by grasping a capacity for knowledge forbidden at that time by God (Gn. 2:9, 17; 3:52, 7, 22); from that point, therefore, human knowledge is tainted by sin, and curtailed by death (Gn. 3:22–24). Q turns to the subject of knowledge (1:16–18; 2:12–23) after surveying that of toil (1:3, 13–15; 2:1–11); toil then predominates in E 3:1–6:7, and knowledge in 6:8–11:6.15 As in Genesis, human knowledge is beset with pain (1:16–18): it is corrupted
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