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19 By the sweat of your brow
    will you have food to eat
until you return to the ground
    from which you were made.
For you were made from dust,
    and to dust you will return.”

Paradise Lost: God’s Judgment

20 Then the man—Adam—named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all who live.[a] 21 And the Lord God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:20 Eve sounds like a Hebrew term that means “to give life.”

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.