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where does the term "to know someone in the biblical sense" come from?
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It is an old proper English and proper and poliet way of saying what the Bible speaks of in the bibical sense which means sexual closeness.
In the Bible, when a man laid down with a woman, it was his way of taking her as his wife. And in the eyes of God and man, they were man and wife until death, or adultry which is the only excuse in the Bible for divorcing a spouse and remarrying another (taking another spouse).
There was no such thing as weddings and divorces. Death allowed you to marry again. Or adultry allowed the one that adultry was committed against to cast out the adulterer and take another spouse.
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I think it's the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis. They ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge and then Adam 'knew' Eve, meaning that they had sex.
Sabine
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