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Fruits of the Bibles
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Gerard Herball
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Garden of Eden 19th Century
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Fertile Crescent
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Koran. The Bee - XVI part 14 261
  • He is He who sends down rain from her sky, from it ye drink, and out of it (grows) the vegetation on which y feed your cattle. With it He produces for you wheat, olives, date-palms, grapes, and every kind of fruit; verily in this is a Sign for you who give thought.
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Number of chapters (incomplete) in Hebrew and Christian bibles that refer to specific fruits cited by Moldenke and Moldenke (1952) and mentioned in the Koran (1952).
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Grape
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Viticulture and Enology in Ancient Egypt
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And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard. And he drank of the wine and he was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. Genesis 9:20
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Grape
  • Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved toughing his vineyard. My well beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill. And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now…judge… betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
    Isaiah 5:1-7 & 10
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Grape
  • He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree. And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. Ezekial 17:5-7
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Grape
  • I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit… As the branch cannot bear fruit in itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit  for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
    John 15:1-6.
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Olive tree in the Garden of Gethsemane
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Ancient Presses
Israel
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Oil Lamps
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Olive
  • And thou shalt command the children of Israel that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
    Exodus 27:20
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Olive
  • The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour god and man…
  • Judges 9:8-9
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Olive
  • And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among  them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree… For if thou were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were graffed contrary to nature in a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
    Romans 11:17 &24
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Fig
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Adam and Eve and the Tree of Good and Evil, Codex Aemilianensis, 994, Escorial, Real Bibioteca de San Lorenzo
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Fall from paradise, Michelangelo
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Albrecht Durer, 1471-1528
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Fig
  • And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
    Genesis 3:7
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Fig
  • And the trees said unto the fig-tree, come thou and reign over us. But the fig tree said unto them, should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
    Judges 9:10-11
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Fig
  • A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and fond none. Then said he into the dresser (cultivator) of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none; cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about, and dung it: And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
    Luke 13:6-9
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Fig
  • And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he find anything thereon: And when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet…and in the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
    Mark 11: 13 &20
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Fig
  • I was not a prophet or a prophet's son but I was an herdsman, and a piercer (mistranslated as gatherer in the King James Bible) of sycamore fruit.
    Amos 7:14
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Sycamore Fig
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Date palm
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Date Palm Pollination in Assyrian Bas-reliefs
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Laws of Hammurabi, ca. 1750 BCE
  • 64. If a man give his orchard to a gardener to pollinate (the date palms), as long as the gardener is in possession of the orchard, he shall give to the owner of the orchard two thirds of the yield of the orchard, and he himself shall take one third.
  • 65 If the gardener does not pollinate the (date palms in the) orchard and thus diminishes the yield, the gardener (shall measure and deliver) a yield of the orchard to (the owner of the orchard in accordance with) his neighbor’s yield.
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Date Palm
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Dates, Sinai peninsula
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Oasis at El Tor
Sinai
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Date Palm, Negev, Israel
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Date Palm
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Date
  • And the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees… Deuteronomy 2:8
  • And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither… Psalms 1:3
  • The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree… Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish… They shall bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing. Psalms 92:7-8
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Pomegranate mosaic
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Harvesting and Pest Control
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Mosaic from the synagogue at Beth Alfa showing pomegranate tree, birds and fish
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Ugaritic bronze stand from Ras-Shamra with pomegranates as adornment
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Madonna of the Pomegranate, Sandro Botticelli, 1455-1510
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Pomegranate
  • And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters [capitals] that were upon the top, with pomegranates…and the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about the other chapiter.
    I Kings 7:18 & 20.
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Pomegranate
  • I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
    Song of Songs 8:2
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Almond
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Almond
  • Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop (calyx) and a flower; and three bowls made like unto almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick. And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his knops and is flowers.
    Exodus 37:19-20
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Almond
  • And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacke to witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Lei was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossom, and yielded almonds.
    Numbers 17:1-8
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Moses striking the rock with an almond rod