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So Adam and Eve have the knowledge of good and evil, the fruit of the forbidden tree. This is the knowledge that the snake had told them, that they were missing. The knowledge that only the gods had, but I think that wisdom would say, that the gods had the knowledge of good and what was not good. The divine being whole and complete, and lacking nothing. And would be unable to absorb the knowledge of evil, which is the knowledge of falsehood. But that the knowledge of evil is what Adam and Eve now swam in.
A knowledge that separated them, as we know the pain and torture that can come from being separated from the proximity of a loved one. This torture is surely evil because it brings about discontent.
So for god he would not have knowledge of being separate from himself, but may have seen the distance that Adam and Eve were gaining, as they got lost into the illusions being created by their thinking minds. In the Hindu religion this is called as Maya.
So they were sent out of the garden to toil and work to take care of themselves. With labor and sweat.
Isn’t this what happens to the child when he turns a certain age and decides that he wants to make is own decisions and not have to answer to anyone. When his ego has determined to get what is superego (desires) wants.
So to be separate and independent, which is now what they were, they would need to take care of themselves. And since god said that Adam was made out of the earth, meaning matter, his body consisted of matter, and required the consumption of matter to survive. He would need to work.
I like to think of this as when we go to school and our teachers tell us to work hard and become something so that later in life it will be easier to get the things we want. In other words we need to learn the processes and methods in which we can reap from this world the fruits of our desires.
It is also interesting that I find that the more we reap. And the more we gain the more we become identified with matter. And the further separated we become from the divine. So in a way,” to toil is sin.” When we identify ourselves with the rewards and we are attached to the matter. (The illusion)