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18 It will produce weeds and thorns, and you will have to eat wild plants. 19 You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again.”

20 Adam[a] named his wife Eve,[b] because she was the mother of all human beings.

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  1. Genesis 3:20 This name in Hebrew means “all human beings.”
  2. Genesis 3:20 This name sounds similar to the Hebrew word for “living,” which is rendered in this context as “human beings.”

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