“And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.”
Genesis 3:21
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Why does God make garments of skin?
Adam and Eve had already stitched clothes from fig leaves, which curl and go brittle by the next morning. God made garments of skin for the two people who had just failed Him, clothes that would last, and a life was given to make them.
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Here Adam and Eve cover themselves with fig leaves. In Genesis 3:21 God clothed them Himself: "And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them." Something died so that God could cover the people who broke faith with Him, and that pattern runs all the way to Christ.
Read the whole studyConnection with Noah's sons covering his shame
When Noah's sons found him uncovered in his tent, two of them covered him with a cloak (Genesis 9:23). It echoes this verse: fruit, nakedness, shame, and someone stepping in to cover it. In Eden it was God Himself who clothed the shame He found.
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Noah's sons did the same when they would not look at their father's nakedness and covered him, acting like God here. Scripture later uses that verb, cover, to teach about love: "Love covers all transgressions" (Proverbs 10:12), echoed in "love covers over a multitude of sins" (1 Peter 4:8).
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Cross-References
God made garments of skin to cover Adam and Eve's shame — the first sacrifice. Revelation's redeemed wear 'robes washed white in the blood of the Lamb.' From first covering to final clothing.
““Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
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