According to the Book of Genesis in the Bible, when God created Adam, the first man, he placed him in a wonderful place called the Garden of Eden. And when he made Eve, the first woman, she lived in the Garden of Eden too. But God told Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit of the tree that grew in the middle of the garden. A snake came and told Eve to eat the fruit, and she did eat it, and she gave some to Adam, and he ate it too. Then God was angry and made them leave the garden, and from then on they had to work for a living.

(If this can be seen as a sort of memory of the beginning of farming, when people could no longer live by hunting and gathering but had to begin farming to feed themselves and their children, then it would be dated around 10,000 BC).

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