Genesis 3:21 -- the rest of the story?

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posthuman

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Genesis 3:21 --

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
(KJV)

The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
(NASB)

The LORD God made clothing out of skins for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
(HCSB)

coats, garments, clothing -- elsewhere the word is rendered tunic, robe. physical cloaks fashioned by God's own hand ((!!!))


what happened to these? did they rot and crumble to dust like man-made raiment?
is there anywhere else in the scripture where God Himself tailors suits for people?
any other significant articles of garb that are possibly linked to these?



 

posthuman

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and the profound & wonderful spiritual thing represented here, of course

:rolleyes:

 

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Genesis 3:21 --

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
(KJV)

The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
(NASB)

The LORD God made clothing out of skins for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
(HCSB)

coats, garments, clothing -- elsewhere the word is rendered tunic, robe. physical cloaks fashioned by God's own hand ((!!!))


what happened to these? did they rot and crumble to dust like man-made raiment?
is there anywhere else in the scripture where God Himself tailors suits for people?
any other significant articles of garb that are possibly linked to these?



The part that was important is that God killed the first of the 'other flesh' That means that critter will be resurrected in the new earth verses. Jesus has a feast for some birds and animals (as well as all the one who died in a sacrifice) to make up for the abuses they suffered from men. That flesh also dies and they are under a covenant of remembrance so that remembrance kicks in when living water comes out of New Jerusalem after it is on the new earth and that is when they are made healthy again.

Ho:4:3:
Therefore shall the land mourn,
and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish,
with the beasts of the field,
and with the fowls of heaven;
yea,
the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

Ho:2:18:
And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field,
and with the fowls of heaven,
and with the creeping things of the ground:
and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth,
and will make them to lie down safely.

The reason for the other flesh not being alive is they would end up in the fiery lake as they do not know about good and evil and are sinless in that respect. They are eternal beings meaning the can die if food is taken away. People in the era are sinless and immortal and that is how they survive that wrath from God in Heaven
 
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First act of "murder" recorded in the Holly Bible

Who be da man-----who done the deed?

"And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he {e} slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand."

just asking
 
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Genesis, at the start. In the Garden of Eden, shows how much God loved, and how much that God gave to Adam, and Eve. They had freedom to do as they pleased while having direct access to God to talk to, as long as no one ate from the tree of knowledge.
 

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Who be da man-----who done the deed?

"And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he {e} slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand."

just asking
Moses died just before he was 120 years old as God would have had to judge him a sinner. That sin was not forgiven not the one over the water incident.
 

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Genesis, at the start. In the Garden of Eden, shows how much God loved, and how much that God gave to Adam, and Eve. They had freedom to do as they pleased while having direct access to God to talk to, as long as no one ate from the tree of knowledge.
The grief that God felt in Ge:6 was over what was being done to them by the giants and fallen angels so that love never faded.
 
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Genesis 3:21 --

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
(KJV)

The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
(NASB)

The LORD God made clothing out of skins for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
(HCSB)

coats, garments, clothing -- elsewhere the word is rendered tunic, robe. physical cloaks fashioned by God's own hand ((!!!))


what happened to these? did they rot and crumble to dust like man-made raiment?
is there anywhere else in the scripture where God Himself tailors suits for people?
any other significant articles of garb that are possibly linked to these?



I always wonder which animal was slaughtered to make the skins and if that was why Abel offered the first of His flock...because he knew that the Blood would cover sins ..,a prophecy to Christ redemption of us?
 

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Like a coat made of leather today it will deteriorate and return to dust. The first death that is ever recorded was the death of these animals to cover the sinners. Jesus died for the sinner. The innocent animal/s died to cover Adam and Eves nakedness. It was a lesson for all of us that "Sin = death". Blood was required to cover their nakedness.
 

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I always wonder which animal was slaughtered to make the skins and if that was why Abel offered the first of His flock...because he knew that the Blood would cover sins ..,a prophecy to Christ redemption of us?
a lamb would make a lot of sense.
 

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Like a coat made of leather today it will deteriorate and return to dust.

Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.
(Deuteronomy 8:4)

also Deuteronomy 29:5 and Nehemiah 9:21 testify of this: that in the 40 years Israel spent in the wilderness, their garments did not deteriorate.

this was clothing made by man, yet i'm asking about objects of clothing literally made by God Himself - are they like coats made today? are they like human-made tunics at all?
 

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They went the way of any clothing made of animal skin Bones.
 

posthuman

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First act of "murder" recorded in the Holly Bible

Who be da man-----who done the deed?

"And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he {e} slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand."

just asking
i'm not sure what you're asking or how it has to do with the garments God made & clothed the man and the woman with. there's murder recorded before Moses, do you think Cain & Abel had inherited their parents clothes? did Cain wear one of them?


 

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They went the way of any clothing made of animal skin Bones.

ten years later or whatever God's own hand-sewn stitches were coming apart & the elbows He designed & crafted were wearing thin, so Adam & Eve tossed them out and sewed new ones . . ? or they made more fashionable tunics for themselves soon after and kinda just stopped wearing the old divinely tailored ones, maybe lost them after they moved, in a box somewhere . . ?


would they have kept them for sentimental value, i wonder, crumbling old rags, the only physical cloaks the Almighty Himself ever was known to have made in all of history, mildewing in a storage tub.. that's weird to imagine.

did they wind up in an ancient 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] hand store, or stuffed into a crack of a drafty cave or mud-hut . . ?
 
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Obviously more animals were used for clothing Bones - I think you are trying to make more of the accountant that it's intended to convey.

Anyway fig leaves are good enough for the kids..:p
 

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ten years later or whatever God's own hand-sewn stitches were coming apart & the elbows He designed & crafted were wearing thin, so Adam & Eve tossed them out and sewed new ones . . ? or they made more fashionable tunics for themselves soon after and kinda just stopped wearing the old divinely tailored ones, maybe lost them after they moved, in a box somewhere . . ?


would they have kept them for sentimental value, i wonder, crumbling old rags, the only physical cloaks the Almighty Himself ever was known to have made in all of history, mildewing in a storage tub.. that's weird to imagine.

did they wind up in an ancient 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] hand store, or stuffed into a crack of a drafty cave or mud-hut . . ?
How does this relate to salvation? It doesn't matter what happened to the clothing made of a slaughtered animal, it is important that we have the garment that Christ has made for us which comes by faith in His death and resurrection.
 

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How does this relate to salvation? It doesn't matter what happened to the clothing made of a slaughtered animal, it is important that we have the garment that Christ has made for us which comes by faith in His death and resurrection.
does the garment He gives us wear out?

these, in Genesis 3:21, were made not by human hands, to replace what was wholly inadequate - the ones that were made by human hands.

if they represent the robe of Christ, how far does the type & metaphor go? if they waxed old, and were no different than what an ordinary human would sew, does it speak to the nature of what we put on in Him?

or do we just accept that the analogy falls apart quickly were we to examine the physical nature of these actual, physical objects?
 

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Obviously more animals were used for clothing Bones - I think you are trying to make more of the accountant that it's intended to convey.

Anyway fig leaves are good enough for the kids..:p
but puppy-borg, the narrative suggests the fig leaves weren't quite good enough :p
 
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does the garment He gives us wear out?

these, in Genesis 3:21, were made not by human hands, to replace what was wholly inadequate - the ones that were made by human hands.

if they represent the robe of Christ, how far does the type & metaphor go? if they waxed old, and were no different than what an ordinary human would sew, does it speak to the nature of what we put on in Him?

or do we just accept that the analogy falls apart quickly were we to examine the physical nature of these actual, physical objects?
God is not clothing us with skins although they are representative of being clothed with Christ's righteousness.

One is physical the other spiritual just as the physical temple was a figure of the temple of believers.
 

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God is not clothing us with skins although they are representative of being clothed with Christ's righteousness.

One is physical the other spiritual just as the physical temple was a figure of the temple of believers.

this event is a striking figure of Christ's atonement, though, isn't it?
if it happened the way we would naturally assume, that two creatures were slaughtered for the sake of covering the shame of the two humans, then it's the first mention of the shedding of blood, and it's connected with His grace, and significantly a covering by His own hand, rejecting the coverings made by their hands, mirrored in the rejection of Cains offering and the acceptance of Abels.

i'm asking myself, is there a significant difference between things wrought by God's hand and things wrought by mans pointed out here, does that extend to physical reality - is it fair to compare to human manufacturing or is it ignorant to assume that?