OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 20

Genesis 3:20

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The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

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Genesis 3:20 in context

Genesis 3:17–23

17

To Adam he said,

“Because you have listened to your wife’s voice,

and have eaten from the tree,

about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’

the ground is cursed for your sake.

You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

18

It will yield thorns and thistles to you;

and you will eat the herb of the field.

19

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground,

for you were taken out of it.

For you are dust,

and you shall return to dust.”

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The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

21

The LORD God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

22

The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”

23

Therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

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