GOD'S LOVE FOR FALLEN MANKIND
Key verse: 21
NIV
20 Adam[a] named his wife Eve,[b](A) 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.(B) 22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us,(C) knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life(D) and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden(E) to work the ground(F) from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side[c] of the Garden of Eden(G) cherubim(H) and a flaming sword(I) flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.(J)
Footnotes
- Genesis 3:20 Or The man
- Genesis 3:20 Eve probably means living.
- Genesis 3:24 Or placed in front
Cross references
- Genesis 3:20 : S Ge 2:20; 2Co 11:3; 1Ti 2:13
- Genesis 3:21 : S ver 7
- Genesis 3:22 : S Ge 1:26
- Genesis 3:22 : S Ge 2:9; S Rev 2:7
- Genesis 3:23 : S Ge 2:8
- Genesis 3:23 : S Ge 2:7
- Genesis 3:24 : S Ge 2:8
- Genesis 3:24 : Ex 25:18-22; 1Sa 4:4; 2Sa 6:2; 22:11; 1Ki 6:27; 8:6; 2Ki 19:15; 2Ch 5:8; Ps 18:10; 80:1; 99:1; Isa 37:16; Eze 10:1; 28:16
- Genesis 3:24 : Job 40:19; Ps 104:4; Isa 27:1
- Genesis 3:24 : S Ge 2:9
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ESV
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, (A)“Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand (B)and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden (C)to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the (D)cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
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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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1. Garments of skin (2
-21)
Even though Eve had been a poor helper for Adam, he accepted her as his wife and as the mother of all the human race. As Satan had promised, their eyes were opened to know good and evil; but Satan had not told them the whole story. Because of sin, they were filled with shame; man's self-image became ugly. He could not like himself or anyone else. But God still loved them. He shed the blood of an animal and made garments of skin to cover their shame. God didn't give up on them, for love never gives up.
2. Banished from the Garden (22-24)
The tree of life was in the garden. Man in his fallen estate should not eat of it and live forever, so God banished him from the Garden. The tree of life appears again in Revelation 22:2,14,19. God gives eternal life to those who believe in Jesus. He plants hope in the hearts of men who must live in a cursed world.
Prayer: Father, thank you for covering my sin and shame with the blood of Jesus, and for giving me hope.
One Word: Garments of skin
