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Genesis 3:20

20 The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.1

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[1] 3:20 Eve sounds like the Hebrew for life-giver and resembles the word for living

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Genesis 3:20, KJV

20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

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Genesis 3:20, NASB

Now the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

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Genesis 3:20, NLT

Paradise Lost: God’s Judgment

20Then the man—Adam—named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all who live.*3:20 Eve sounds like a Hebrew term that means “to give life.”

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