Genesis 3:19-21

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¹⁹In the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread
till you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
you are dust,
    and to dust you shall return.”

²⁰The man called his wife’s name Eve,^[a] because she was the mother of all living. ²¹And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.

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Genesis 3:20 The name in Hebrew resembles the word for living

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