Genesis 3:20

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The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

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  • Gen 2:20 : 20 So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.
  • Gen 2:23 : 23 Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
  • Acts 17:26 : 26 From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,
  • Gen 5:29 : 29 He named him Noah, saying,“This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
  • Gen 16:11 : 11 Then the LORD’s angel said to her,“You are now pregnant and are about to give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your painful groans.
  • Gen 29:32-35 : 32 So Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said,“The LORD has looked with pity on my oppressed condition. Surely my husband will love me now.” 33 She became pregnant again and had another son. She said,“Because the LORD heard that I was unloved, he gave me this one too.” So she named him Simeon. 34 She became pregnant again and had another son. She said,“Now this time my husband will show me affection, because I have given birth to three sons for him.” That is why he was named Levi. 35 She became pregnant again and had another son. She said,“This time I will praise the LORD.”That is why she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.
  • Gen 35:18 : 18 With her dying breath, she named him Ben Oni. But his father called him Benjamin instead.
  • Exod 2:10 : 10 When the child grew older she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying,“Because I drew him from the water.”
  • 1 Sam 1:20 : 20 Then Hannah became pregnant. Hannah Dedicates Samuel to the LordIn the course of time she gave birth to a son. And she named him Samuel, thinking,“I asked the LORD for him.”
  • Matt 1:21 : 21 She will give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
  • Matt 1:23 : 23 “Look! The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will name him Emmanuel,” which means“God with us.”

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  • Gen 2:18-25
    8 verses
    78%

    18The LORD God said,“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”

    19The LORD God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

    20So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.

    21So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh.

    22Then the LORD God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

    23Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

    24That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

    25The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.

  • Gen 3:21-23
    3 verses
    75%

    21The LORD God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

    22And the LORD God said,“Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

    23So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

  • Gen 3:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16To the woman he said,“I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you.”

    17But to Adam he said,“Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

  • 1The Story of Cain and Abel Now the man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said,“I have created a man just as the LORD did!”

  • 25And Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth, saying,“God has given me another child in place of Abel because Cain killed him.”

  • 73%

    13For Adam was formed first and then Eve.

    14And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, because she was fully deceived, fell into transgression.

  • Gen 5:1-5
    5 verses
    72%

    1From Adam to Noah This is the record of the family line of Adam.When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

    2He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them“humankind.”

    3When Adam had lived 130 years he fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and he named him Seth.

    4The length of time Adam lived after he became the father of Seth was 800 years; during this time he had other sons and daughters.

    5The entire lifetime of Adam was 930 years, and then he died.

  • Gen 3:11-13
    3 verses
    71%

    11And the LORD God said,“Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

    12The man said,“The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”

    13So the LORD God said to the woman,“What is this you have done?” And the woman replied,“The serpent tricked me, and I ate.”

  • 19By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

  • Gen 3:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

    7Then the eyes of both of them opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

  • 9But the LORD God called to the man and said to him,“Where are you?”

  • 17The Beginning of Civilization Cain was intimate with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was building a city, and he named the city after his son Enoch.

  • 15The LORD God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

  • Gen 1:27-28
    2 verses
    67%

    27God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

    28God blessed them and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”

  • 1¶ Adam’s Descendants Adam, Seth, Enosh,

  • 7The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

  • 2The woman said to the serpent,“We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;

  • 45So also it is written,“The first man, Adam, became a living person”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

  • 5and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?