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Genesis 3:19-24
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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.”
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Then the man—Adam—named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all who live.
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And the LORD God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife.
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Then the LORD God said, “Look, the human beings have become like us, knowing both good and evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life, and eat it? Then they will live forever!”
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So the LORD God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.
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After sending them out, the LORD God stationed mighty cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden. And he placed a flaming sword that flashed back and forth 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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