Genesis 3:22
Then the Lord God said: “The man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not reach out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.”
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21The Lord God made clothes from animal skins for Adam and his wife and dressed them.
23So the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he had been taken.
Cross References
Genesis 2:9From the soil the Lord God made grow all kinds of trees that are pleasant to look at and good for food, with the tree of life also in the middle of the garden and the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 11:6he said, “See, they are one people and all have one language. This is only the beginning of their activity, and now nothing that they propose to do will seem too difficult for them.
John 6:48I am the life-giving bread.
Revelation 22:2in the middle of the street of the city. On each side of the river was a Tree of life which bore twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:22
21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them. We have here a further instance of God's care concerning our first parents, notwithstanding their sin. Though he corrects his disobedient children, and put them under the marks of his displeasure, yet he does not disinherit them, but, like a tender father, provides the herb of the field for their food and coats of skins for their clothing. Thus the father provided for the returning prodigal, Luke xv. 22, 23 . If the Lord had… Read the whole commentary →