The serpent end Eve play with the God's prohibition by adding the words He didn't use. Serpent asks about the all trees and Eve adds "touch it not, else you must die". Eve also sees the things what can not be seen that the fruits are taste and that having them opens the access to the knowledge.
For Buber : ""Knowledge of good and evil" means nothing else than: cognizance of the opposites(...). We can describe what it meant as: adequate awareness of the opposites inherent in all being within the world."
Source: On the Bible, Eighteen Studies by Martin Buber, Syracuse University Press 2000, pg.14-21
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