For millennia, Eve has been portrayed as leading Adam to eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, despite God’s prohibition. Beham’s print shows Eve extending the fruit toward Adam. Eve’s other hand covers her sex, connecting female sexuality with suffering and death, represented by the skeleton standing between them. Rembrandt’s interpretation casts Eve clearly as the instigator, offering Adam the fruit despite his gesture reminding her of God. In Rops’ image, Eve is alone with the tree and serpent. The phrase in the branches that reads eritis similes deo (“you shall be like God”) suggests that in her reach for divine knowledge, Eve condemned herself and humanity to eternal suffering in their banishment from the Garden of Eden.