Genesis 3:8

the voice Better, as R.V. marg., sound. The man and woman are represented as hearing the sound of God's footsteps in the garden.

in the cool of the day Lit. "in the wind of the day"; that is, at the time of day when, in the East, a cool wind springs up, and people leave their houses. LXX τὸ δειλινόν, Vulg. ad auram post meridiem.

hid themselves Evidently it had hitherto been their custom to go with Jehovah when He "walked in the garden." Now conscience makes cowards of them; and, like children who had done wrong, they hide themselves "in medio ligni Paradisi" (Vulg.).