Genesis 3:8
Late that afternoon, when a cool breeze was blowing, they heard the sound/footsteps of Yahweh as he was walking in the park/garden. So the man and his wife hid themselves among the bushes in the park/garden, so that Yahweh God would not see them.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
9But Yahweh God called to the man, saying to him, “Why are you trying to hide from me?”
Cross References
Genesis 3:10The man replied, “I heard the sound of your footsteps/walking in the garden, and I was naked, so I was afraid and I hid myself.”
Deuteronomy 5:25But we are afraid that we will die [RHQ] if we hear Yahweh our God speak [MTY] to us again; his terrible fire will destroy/kill us.
Job 22:14Do you think that while he walks on the dome that covers the sky, there are thick clouds around him, with the result that he cannot see what we do?
Job 34:21“He sees [MTY] everything that people do; when we walk, he watches every step that we take.
Psalms 139:1Yahweh, you have examined me, and you know everything about me.
Jeremiah 23:24So, no one can hide in some secret place with the result that I cannot see him. I am everywhere, in heaven and on the earth! That is what I, Yahweh, say!
Matthew Henry on Genesis 3:7-9
The Fall of Man. ( b. c. 4004.) 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his… Read the whole commentary →