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When and Where Things Went WrongAwake!—1974 | October 8
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The Scriptural record shows God’s fatherly care and interest in that original pair. Human parents today make advance preparation for the arrival of their offspring, getting things ready for the new family member. Similarly the Bible recounts God’s careful preparation for his first human son and daughter. He started them off in life—not in a swamp, cave, wilderness or jungle—but in a parklike area, a true botanical garden of fruit-bearing and other trees, where there was no need for them to feel hunger.
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When and Where Things Went WrongAwake!—1974 | October 8
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They had no need to feel any sense of being deprived of anything essential to their happiness in view of all the other fruit-bearing trees available. (Gen. 2:9) And, finally, though simple, this test of their obedience and respect would be in harmony with the wise principle spoken later by God’s Son, that “the person faithful in what is least is faithful also in much, and the person unrighteous in what is least is unrighteous also in much.”—Luke 16:10.
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