In its footnote to Genesis 2: 17, The Jerusalem Bible explains “the knowledge of good and evil ” as“ the power of deciding... what is good and what is evil and of acting accordingly, a claim to complete moral independence by which man refuses to recognise his status as a created being. ”
يوضح الكتاب المقدس الاورشليمي ‏ (‏ بالانكليزية )‏ في حاشية تكوين ٢ :‏ ١٧ ان « معرفة الخير والشر » هي « القدرة على تقرير .‏ .‏ .‏