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Genesis 3:19-24
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By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, until your return to the ground. For from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
20
And the man {named} his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all life.
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And Yahweh God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skin, and he clothed them.
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And Yahweh God said, "Look--the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. {What if} he stretches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life and eats, and lives forever?"
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And Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
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So he drove the man out, and placed cherubim east of the garden of Eden, and {a flaming, turning sword} to guard the way to the tree of life.
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Genesis 3:19-24 Meaning and Commentary
INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 3
In this chapter an account is given of the temptation of our first parents, of the instrument of it, and of their fall into it, and of the effect of it, Ge 3:1-7 their summons upon it to appear before God, against whom they had sinned, Ge 3:8-10 their examination by him, and the excuses they made, Ge 3:11-13 the various sentences passed of the serpent, the woman, and the man, Ge 3:14-19 some incidental things recorded, expressive of faith and hope in man, and of favour to him, Ge 3:20,21 and his expulsion from the garden of Eden, Ge 3:22-24.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Footnotes 7
- [a]. Literally "your face"
- [b]. "The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article
- [c]. Literally "called the name"
- [d]. The noun lacks the definite article and is taken as a proper noun in this context
- [e]. Literally "And now lest"
- [f]. Or "And"
- [g]. Literally "a flame of the sword which was turning"
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