Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Genesis 3:21
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God (u) make coats of skins, and clothed them.
(u) Or, gave them knowledge to make themselves coats.
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God (u) make coats of skins, and clothed them.
(u) Or, gave them knowledge to make themselves coats.
Verse Genesis 3:21. _GOD MADE COATS OF SKINS_] It is very likely that the _skins_ out of which their _clothing_ was made were taken off animals whose blood had been poured out as a _sin-offering_ to...
- XVI. The Judgment 15. שׁוּף _shûp_ “bruise, wound.” τηρεῖν (=τερεῖν?) _tērein_ ἐκτρίβειν _ektribein_ Job 9:17, καταπατεῖν...
CHAPTER 3 The Fall of Man _ 1. The serpent and the woman (Genesis 3:1)_ 2. The fall and the immediate results (Genesis 3:6) 3. Jehovah Elohim questions Adam (Genesis 3:8) 4. His question to the w...
Among the animals formed by Yahweh, in His first attempt to provide man with a companion, was the serpent; at that time either a quadruped or holding itself erect. It was eminent among its fellows for...
COATS. Compare the structure of Genesis 3; Genesis 3:7. OF SKINS. skin. Omitted in the Codex "Severus" See App-34....
These two verses are a parenthesis interrupting the thread of the narrative. Probably they contain materials current in some other thread of tradition, and inserted here at the close of the judicial s...
_coats of skins_ in reference to Genesis 3:7. The sense of shame is the result of the knowledge of evil. The present verse gives the traditional explanation of the origin of clothes. The word "coats...
DISCOURSE: 8 THE WAY OF SALVATION ILLUSTRATED TO OUR FIRST PARENTS Genesis 3:21. Unto Adam also, and to his wife, did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them. And the Lord God said, Behold,...
DID THE LORD GOD MAKE COATS, &C.— But of what beasts it has been asked? such as were killed on purpose for the occasion, or such as were killed in sacrifice? which many suppose was instituted from thi...
PART THIRTEEN: THE BEGINNING OF PHYSICAL EVIL ON EARTH (Genesis 3:9-24) _Recapitulation_ 1. Aldo J. Tos writes interestingly as follows (ABOT, 61): The account of the Fall is an artistic presentatio...
_UNTO ADAM ALSO AND TO HIS WIFE DID THE LORD GOD MAKE COATS OF SKINS, AND CLOTHED THEM._ Coats of skins. The Hebrew х_ KAATªNOWT_ (H3801) _ `OWR_ (H5785)], coverings of skin, because the latter word...
PARADISE AND THE FALL In this famous passage we possess a wealth of moral and spiritual teaching regarding God and man. The intention of the writer is evidently to give an answer to the question: How...
The symbolical account of the creation of woman teaches the close relationship of the sexes, and the dependence of woman on man....
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 3 ADAM AND EVE DO AN EVIL THING V1 The snake was the cleverest wild animal that the *Lord God had made. The snake said to the woman, ‘Is it true...
Adam and Eve had turned themselves away from God. What they had done spoiled God’s plans. But it did not change God’s *command. God had said, ‘Have large families. Increase so that you fill the earth....
EXCURSUS C: ON THE DURATION OF THE PARADISIACAL STATE OF INNOCENCE. The _Bereshit Rabba_ argues that Adam and Eve remained in their original state of innocence for six hours only. Others have supposed...
COATS OF SKINS. — Animals, therefore, were killed even in Paradise; nor is it certain that man’s diet was until the flood entirely vegetarian (see Note on Genesis 1:29). Until sin entered the world no...
וַ יַּעַשׂ֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהִ֜ים לְ אָדָ֧ם וּ
THE FALL Genesis 3:1 PROFOUND as the teaching of this narrative is, its meaning does not lie on the surface. Literal interpretation will reach a measure of its significance, but plainly there is more...
GOD'S CONDEMNATION OF ADAM AND EVE Genesis 3:9 God does not wait for Adam to find his own way back, but hastens in search of him. “Where art thou” is rendered in one version, _Alas for thee._ Jesus m...
Here begins the second section of the Book of Genesis. As the first has answered questions concerning creation, the second replies to questions asked in the presence of sin and suffering and sorrow. T...
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. Romans 13:14. Were not these the skins of beasts slaughtered for sacrifice? They could not be for food, for at th...
There is one characteristic of divine revelation to which attention may be profitably called as a starting point. We have to do with facts. The Bible alone is a revelation of facts, and, we can add (n...
21._Unto Adam also, and to his wife, did the Lord God make, etc_. Moses here, in a homely style, declares that the Lord had undertaken the labor of making garments of skins for Adam and his wife. It i...
In chapter 3 we find what, alas! has always happened, and happened immediately when God has set up anything in the hands of responsible man disobedience and failure. So it was in Adam, so in Noah, so...
UNTO ADAM ALSO, AND TO HIS WIFE,.... Besides the kind intimation of grace and favour to them, another token of God's good will towards them was shown, in that whereas they were naked and ashamed, DID...
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. Ver. 21. _Coats of skins and clothed them._] God put them in leather, when yet there was better means of clothin...
Gen. 3:21. "Coat of _skins._ " Our first parents, who were become naked, were clothed at the expense of life. Beasts were slain, and resigned up their lives to afford them clothing to cover their nake...
_Unto Adam and his wife did God make_ By his own word, or by the ministry of angels; _coats of skins_ Of beasts slain, either to show them what death is, or rather, as is more probable, in sacrifice t...
1 The serpent deceiueth Eue. 6 Mans shamefull fall. 9 God arraigneth them. 14 The serpent is cursed. 15 The promised Seed. 16 The punishment of Mankind. 21 Their first clothing. 22 Their castin...
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them. So the first real dress of man was God's work; He authorized them, He gave them instructions, to make themselves c...
Man Driven Out of paradise...
SECOND PART THE GENESIS OF THE WORLD-HISTORY, OF THE TRIAL, OF THE SIN OF MAN, OF THE JUDGMENT, OF DEATH, OF THE SALVATION-TRIUMPH, OF THE CONTRAST BETWEEN A DIVINE AND A WORLDLY TENDENCY IN HUMANITY...
THE FALL OF MAN The serpent is introduced in this chapter as being more cunning than all other beasts. This was evidently so just by the fact of Satan's using the serpent for his mouthpiece. It is not...
20,21 God named the man, and called him Adam, which signifies red earth; Adam named the woman, and called her Eve, that is, life. Adam bears the name of the dying body, Eve of the living soul. Adam p...
THE LORD GOD, either by his own word, or by the ministry of angels, MADE COATS OF SKINS, of beasts slain either for sacrifice to God, or for the use of man, their lord and owner; AND CLOTHED THEM, par...
This section of our book sets before us the breaking up of the whole scene on which we have been dwelling. It abounds in very weighty principles; and has, very justly, been, in all ages, resorted to a...
Genesis 3:21 Adam H120 wife H802 LORD H3068 God H430 made H6213 (H8799) tunics H3801 skin H5785 clothed...
‘And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife clothing made from skins and covered them.' God now makes clear their new position. They can no longer walk naked before him, for they have made themselve...
COATS OF SKINS Coats of skins: Type of "Christ, made unto us righteousness" -- a divinely provided garment that the first sinners might be made fit for God's presence. See Righteousness, garment (Ge...
Genesis 3:21 An ancient interpreter of Scripture has not scrupled to declare that there are in the Book of Revelation as many mysteries as there are words. True as the words are as applied to that won...
Genesis 3 Consider: (1) some of the consequences, and (2) some of the corroborative proofs of the fall. I. Beside and behind the outward consequences, there were inward results far more terrible. A d...
Genesis 3:1. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And...
Genesis 3:1. _Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?_ H...
CONTENTS: Temptation of Eve and entrance of sin into the race. God's covenant with fallen man and the expulsion from Eden. CHARACTERS: God, Satan, Adam, Eve. CONCLUSION: Doubt lies at the root of all...
Genesis 3:1. _The serpent._ The rabbins and the christian doctors have largely sported their opinions here. St. Cyril contends that Satan assumed the figure of the serpent, and so talked with the woma...
_What is this that thou hast done?_ THE GENERAL RESULTS OF THE FALL I. ETERNAL ENMITY BETWEEN SATAN AND HUMANITY (Genesis 3:14). 1. This curse was uttered in reference to Satan. 2. This address is...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 3:1 The sudden arrival of a speaking SERPENT presents a challenge to the human couple. Their choice to disregard God’s instructions is an act of willful rebellion that has terr...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 3:20 God’s words of judgment are immediately followed by two actions that offer hope. First, the man names his wife EVE, which means “life-giver” (see esv footnote). Second, Go...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 3:13_ THE GENERAL RESULTS OF THE FALL OF OUR FIRST PARENTS I. The result of the fall of our first parents is an eternal enmity between Satan and humanity....
EXPOSITION GENESIS 3:20 Arraigned, convicted, judged, the guilty but pardoned pair prepare to leave their garden home—the woman to begin her experience of sorrow, dependence, and subjection; the man...
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden (Genesis 3:1)? Now...
make. Genesis 3:7 Isaiah 61:10 Romans 3:22 2 Corinthians 5:2 2
THE CROSS IN GENESIS Genesis 2:22; Genesis 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS If Jesus Christ, in the purposes of God, was given to die before the world was formed, or before man was created; and if man, when h...
These coats of skin had a significancy. The beasts whose skins they were, must be slain; slain before their eyes to shew them what death is. And probably 'tis supposed they were slain for sacrifice, t...