Genesis 3:21

Then the Lord God killed some animals and used their skins to make clothes for Adam and his wife.

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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

20Adam's wife was the first woman, and so all the people in the world came from her. That is why Adam named her Eve. That name means that life came from her.

22Then the Lord God said, “The man is like us now. He knows what is good and what is bad. We have to stop him from eating any fruit from the other tree in the middle of the garden. If anyone eats fruit from that tree, they will live forever.”

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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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