Yahweh God made coats of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
Parallel translations
- KJV Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
- BSB And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
- ESV And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
- NKJV Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.
- NASB And the Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
- NLT And the Lord God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife.
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Quick answer
God Himself clothes Adam and Eve with garments of animal skin, covering their shame. It is an early picture of God providing a covering for sin at the cost of life.
Overview
The fig leaves of human effort are replaced by skins God provides, requiring the death of an animal. This act of grace shows God mercifully covering the guilt and shame His fallen creatures could not cover themselves. Many see here a foreshadowing of the substitutionary covering ultimately given in Christ, whose sacrifice clothes believers in righteousness.
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- Isa 61:10I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
- 2 Cor 5:21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- 2 Cor 5:2–3For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;
- Gen 3:7Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.
- Rom 3:22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
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