𝕲𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖎𝖘 3:20-24 𝕬𝖓𝖉 Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

[21] 𝕬𝖑𝖘𝖔 for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.

[22] 𝕿𝖍𝖊𝖓 the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"-

[23] 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖊 the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.

[24] 𝕾𝖔 He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

3:22 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙪𝙨. See note on 1:26. This was spoken out of compassion for the man and woman, who only in limited ways were like the Trinity, knowing good and evil-not by holy omniscience, but by personal experience (cf. Is. 6:3; Hab. 1:13; Rev. 4:8).

3:22-23 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧. See note on 2:9. God told man that he would surely die if he ate of the forbidden tree. But God’s concern may also have been that man not live forever in his pitifully cursed condition. Taken in the broader context of Scripture, driving the man and his wife out of the garden was an act of merciful grace to prevent them from being sustained forever by the tree of life.

3:24 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙪𝙗𝙞𝙢. Later in Israel’s history, two cherubim or angelic figures guarded the ark of the covenant and the Holy of Holies in the tabernacle (Ex. 25:18-22), where God communed with His people. flaming sword. An unexplainable phenomenon, perhaps associated directly with the cherubim or the flaming, fiery Shekinah presence of God Himself.