“And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.”
Genesis 3:7
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Fig leaves, then garments of skin
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.
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The verb for opened, paqach, is almost always used of opening eyes, and here it opened eyes to shame. Genesis uses it again when God opened Hagar's eyes in the desert, so that she saw a well of water that was already in the ground (Genesis 21:19).
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