Genesis 3:20
18 Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.
21 And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
22 Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.
- KJV
- And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
- WEB
- The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.
- ASV
- And the man called his wife`s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
- DARBY
- And Man called his wife's name Eve; because she is the mother of all living.
- BLB
- And the man called the name of his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
- ÅB
- Og Adam kalte sin hustru Eva, fordi hun er alle levendes mor.
- OTB
- Mannen kalte sin kone Eva, fordi hun ble mor til alle som lever.
- B1930
- Og Adam kalte sin hustru Eva, fordi hun er alle levendes mor.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 1:23
“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).
Read in contextGenesis 2:23
And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
Read in contextGenesis 2:20
The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
Read in contextGenesis 5:29
And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
Read in contextGenesis 16:11
The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.
Read in contextGenesis 29:32–35
And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”
Read in contextGenesis 35:18
And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.
Read in contextExodus 2:10
When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
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