Genesis 3:21

And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

In Context

20And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.

22And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now therefore lest perhaps he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. Behold Adam, etc... This was spoken by way of reproaching him with his pride, in affecting a knowledge that might make him like to God.

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Cross References

Isaiah 61:10I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, and my soul shall be joyful in my God: for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation: and with the robe of justice he hath covered me, as a bridegroom decked with a crown, and as a bride adorned with her jewels.

1 Corinthians 12:23And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour: and those that are our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

2 Corinthians 5:21Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be made the justice of God in him. Sin for us... That is, to be a sin offering, a victim for sin.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:21

20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. God having named the man, and called him Adam, which signifies red earth, Adam, in further token of dominion, named the woman, and called her Eve, that is, life. Adam bears the name of the dying body, Eve that of the living soul. The reason of the name is here given (some think, by Moses the historian, others, by Adam himself): Because she was (that is, was to be) the mother of all living. He had before called her Ishah—woman, as a… Read the whole commentary →

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