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about this, you see, is that there was no one else
on the planet at that time, and God still clothed
this man and this woman. See, clothing is to
conceal and not to reveal. Modesty — I'm going
to say it for the third time — was the first issue
addressed after the fall. Nakedness became
sinful after the fall, after sin entered into the
world, and after the fall, we find that man's
heart became dark and sinful and man could not
adequately dress himself. How do we know
that? Because they took fig leaves and sewed
them together and made aprons, and God made
coats.
We find in verse 7, “And the eyes of them
both were opened, and they knew that they
were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together,
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and made themselves aprons. And they heard
the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden
in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid
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