19 (A)In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
(B)For dust you are,
And (C)to dust you shall return.”

20 And Adam called his wife’s name (D)Eve,[a] because she was the mother of all living.

21 Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:20 Lit. Life or Living

19 By the sweat of your brow(A)
    you will eat your food(B)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”(C)

20 Adam[a] named his wife Eve,[b](D) because she would become the mother of all the living.

21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:20 Or The man
  2. Genesis 3:20 Eve probably means living.