So he misled them with deception; and when they tasted the tree, their bodies became apparent to them, and they rushed to cover themselves with the leaves of the paradise; and their Lord called to them: "Did I not forbid you from that tree, and tell you that the devil is your clear enemy?"
Translation endnotes
[7:19-27] The Quran describes the tree as the tree of eternity. Perverse tempted Adam and his mate with the false promise of eternity. The Old Testament, in Genesis 2:1-25 and 3:1-24, narrates the same event with some differences. According to Genesis, the tree is about the knowledge of evil and good, and the one who was first tempted is Eve. The Biblical accusation of Eve for the failure of Adam in this major event, would later be exploited fully by misogynistic clergymen. St. Paul justifies his male chauvinist teaching based on women's serpentine-like role in the original sin. The other major difference in the account of this event is the depiction of the tree. The Bible describes the tree as the tree of knowledge. This depiction might be one of the causes of dogmatic and anti-scientific attitude developed by the Church. Sunni and Shiite mushriks imported and adopted this Judeo-Christian distortion regarding creation and the role of man and woman in our failure, through hadith narrations. These misogynistic ideas later were sneaked into the commentaries of the Quran that relied on hadiths. See 2:36; 20:115-123. [7:22] Our creation on earth with material bodies starts with our failure of a divine test. We believed in Satan's promise and we ended up with a temporal body rather than an eternal one. We are given a second chance in this temporal body, which is designed to fail in a short time. The temptation of attaining eternity, shame, body, and covering the body all imply that the temptation was sexual intercourse between man and woman. In this second test, however, sexual attraction and intercourse per se is not prohibited; to the contrary, it is considered a divine blessing (30:21; 33:52). Nevertheless, the purpose of the test is the same: we should peacefully surrender ourselves to God alone, lead a righteous life to redeem ourselves, and expect that there will be a Day after death in which God alone will judge our intentions, attitude and actions, which will determine our eternal salvation or damnation. See 7:26 and 15:29.