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Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.

The serpent passes the fruit to Eve while Adam holds onto a branch. Line engraving after A. Durer.

In the Garden of Eden, Eve offers Adam the apple. Line engraving by C. Galle after G.B. Paggi.

A grape vine, cedar of lebanon and two palm trees by a lake with eleven other plants from the bible forming a border. Lithograph, c. 1850.

Olam ha-tsomeaḥ ha-Mikraʼi : teʼuram ve-zihuyim shel tsemaḥim she-nizkaru ba-Tanakh ʻal rekaʻ ha-Ketuvim, sifrut Ḥazal ve-Yavan ve-tevaʻ ha-arets / Yehudah Feliks.

Plants of the Bible : a complete handbook to all the plants with 200 full-color plates taken in the natural habitat / Michael Zohary.

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A grape vine, cedar of lebanon and two palm trees by a lake with eleven other plants from the bible forming a border. Lithograph, c. 1850.

Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.

Olam ha-tsomeaḥ ha-Mikraʼi : teʼuram ve-zihuyim shel tsemaḥim she-nizkaru ba-Tanakh ʻal rekaʻ ha-Ketuvim, sifrut Ḥazal ve-Yavan ve-tevaʻ ha-arets / Yehudah Feliks.

Twenty trees, herbs and shrubs of the bible. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.

Plants of the Bible : a complete handbook to all the plants with 200 full-color plates taken in the natural habitat / Michael Zohary.