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Adam. Adam [c] is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. [4] Adam is the first human-being aware of God, and features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Gnosticism, Christianity, and Islam ). [5] According to Christianity, Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden by eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Adam and Eve are the Bible's first man and first woman. [9] [10] Adam's name appears first in Genesis 1 with a collective sense, as "mankind"; subsequently in Genesis 2–3 it carries the definite article ha, equivalent to English 'the', indicating that this is "the man". [9] In these chapters God fashions "the man" ( ha adam) from earth ...