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19 By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread
until you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
you are dust,
    and to dust you shall return.’

20 The man named his wife Eve,[a] because she was the mother of all who live. 21 And the Lord God made garments of skins for the man[b] and for his wife, and clothed them.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 3:20 In Heb Eve resembles the word for living
  2. Genesis 3:21 Or for Adam

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