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Genesis 3:19-22
English Standard Version
Genesis 3:19-22
English Standard Version
19 By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
(A)for you are dust,
and (B)to dust you shall return.”
20 The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.[a] 21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
22 Then the Lord God said, (C)“Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand (D)and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”
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- Genesis 3:20 Eve sounds like the Hebrew for life-giver and resembles the word for living
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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