When Adam chose a name for his wife, Eve, he chose it according to what she meant to him “life-giver.” No other creature or bird was suitable to be Adam’s companion. Then, God formed her from her husband’s rib and Adam felt a supernatural kinship with her, “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.”

Because she was made from his own DNA, Adam associated Eve with life (not just bearing children will make a mother but being full of life, “life-giving”- for those adoptive parents).

No doubt the loneliness of realizing that everything on the Earth with him was created from the ground, made him long for “like” companionship. Although Adam was made from dust, there was one important difference, he was also made in God’s image.

I find it interesting that Eve was called his “wife” from the start. That was one amazing wedding ceremony, in the presence of supernatural creativity.

Of course, the passage goes on to describe the curse of sin on mankind. Our sin nature is with us throughout our days on the earth. The beautiful allusion here is to the woman’s offspring (Christ Jesus the Lord) who would eventually be born of a woman and bruise the serpent’s (aka Satan’s) head.

The power of sin is broken through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus. This one act broke the curse of sin and brought mankind from death to life.

It is up to each person to receive God’s gift of the Savior (His Son). Those who gain eternal life will be the ones who “know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.”

Today, if you have not made a confession of faith in the Savior, be sure to call out in faith. …”If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.“- Teresa

John 17:3 ESV

[3] And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

Romans 10:9-10 ESV

[9] because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. [10] For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Genesis 3:14-24 ESV

¹⁴ The Lord God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this,
    cursed are you of all livestock
    and above all beasts of the field;
on your belly you shall go,
    and dust you shall eat
    all the days of your life.
¹⁵ I will put enmity between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring^[v] and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head,
    and you shall bruise his heel.”

¹⁶ To the woman he said,

“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;
    in pain you shall bring forth children.
Your desire shall be contrary to^[w] your husband,
    but he shall rule over you.”

¹⁷ And to Adam he said,

“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
    and have eaten of the tree
of which I commanded you,
    ‘You shall not eat of it,’
cursed is the ground because of you;
    in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
¹⁸ thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
    and you shall eat the plants of the field.
¹⁹ By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
for you are dust,
    and to dust you shall return.”

²⁰ The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.^[x] 21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

²² Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” ²³ therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴ He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

1. Genesis 3:15 Hebrew seed; so throughout Genesis
2. Genesis 3:16 Or shall be toward (see 4:7)
3. Genesis 3:20 Eve sounds like the Hebrew for life-giver and resembles the word for living

English Standard Version (ESV)

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