Genesis 3:10

And he says, “I have heard Your sound in the garden, and I am afraid, for I am naked, and I hide myself.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

In Context

9And YHWH God calls to the man and says to him, “Where [are] you?”

11And He says, “Who has declared to you that you [are] naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I have commanded you not to eat?”

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Cross References

Genesis 3:7and the eyes of them both are opened, and they know that they [are] naked, and they sew fig-leaves, and make girdles for themselves.

Exodus 32:25And Moses sees the people, that it [is] unbridled, for Aaron has made it unbridled for contempt among its withstanders,

Psalms 119:120My flesh has trembled from Your fear, || And I have been afraid from Your judgments!

Isaiah 47:3Your nakedness is revealed, indeed, your reproach is seen, || I take vengeance, and I do not meet a man.”

1 John 3:20because if our heart may condemn—because greater is God than our heart, and He knows all things.

Revelation 16:15(“Behold, I come as a thief; blessed [is] he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness.”)

Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:10-11

9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. We have here the arraignment of these deserters before the righteous Judge of heaven and earth, who, though he is not tied to observe formalities, yet proceeds against them with all possible fairness, that he may be justified when he speaks. Observe here, I. The startling question with which God pursued Adam and arrested him: Where art… Read the whole commentary →

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