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    Syrach 17:7

    He filled them with knowledge and understanding
    and showed them the difference between good and evil.

    What's up with the showed them the difference between good and evil part? Please discuss.
    I am become death...
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    Perhaps someone better filled with knowledge and understanding will soon answer....

    But for now...may I ask why this would not be a reference to the Law of Moses?
    Aragorn: What do you fear, my lady?

    Eowyn: A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire.

    Aragorn: You are a daughter of kings, a shield maiden of Rohan. I do not think that will be your fate.

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      What translation are you using?

      Scripture Verse: Sir. 17:1-15 NRSV margin

      1The Lord created human beings out of earth, and makes them return to it again. 2He gave them a fixed number of days, but granted them authority over everything on it. 3He endowed them with strength proper to them, and made them in his own image. 4He put the fear of him in all living beings, and gave them dominion over beasts and birds. 56Discretion and tongue and eyes, ears and a mind for thinking he gave them. 7He filled them with knowledge and understanding, and showed them good and evil. 8He set his eye upon their hearts to show them the majesty of his works, and he gave them to boast of his marvels forever. 10And they will praise his holy name, 9to proclaim the grandeur of his works. 11He bestowed knowledge upon them, and allotted to them the law of life so that they may know that they who are alive now are mortal. 12He established with them an eternal covenant, and revealed to them his decrees. 13Their eyes saw his glorious majesty, and their ears heard the glory of his voice. 1415Their ways are always known to him; they will not be hid from his eyes.

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      It is evidently a re-telling of God's relation to Adam and Eve.

      I have read an argument that God gave Adam and Eve some knowledge of good (following God's commands is good) and evil (disobeying God's commands is evil), and that eating of the fruit of the tree of good and evil gave them knowledge before they were mature enough to handle it, and so fell.
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