Coats of skin
{{Short description|The coats provided for Adam and Eve by the God}}
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In the biblical story of Adam and Eve, coats of skin ({{Langx|he|כתנות עור|kāṯənōṯ ‘ōr}}, {{singular}} coat of skin) were the aprons provided to Adam and Eve by God when they fell from a state of innocent obedience under Him to a state of guilty disobedience.{{Cite book|last=Easton|first=Matthew George|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O2uuDgAAQBAJ&q=The+%22coats+of+skins%22+prepared+by+God+for+Adam+and+Eve+were+probably+nothing+more+than+aprons+(Gen.+3:21).&pg=PA183|title=The Ultimate Bible Dictionary, Volume 1: A-F|publisher=Jazzybee Verlag|isbn=978-3-8496-9423-4|pages=183|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Easton|first=Matthew George|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hfPFt30S6ooC&q=The+%22coats+of+skins%22+prepared+by+God+for+Adam+and+Eve+were+probably+nothing+more+than+aprons+(Gen.+3:21).&pg=PT371|title=The Ultimate Bible Dictionary|date=2012|publisher=Jazzybee Verlag|isbn=978-3-8496-2186-5|language=en|edition=Annotated}}
Genesis 3:21
As per the biblical interpretation of Genesis 3:21, God produced coats of skin for the first man and woman Adam and Eve and clothed them when they were found naked in the garden after eating the forbidden fruit.{{Cite web|title=Genesis 3 / Hebrew - English Bible / Mechon-Mamre|url=https://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0103.htm#20|access-date=2021-07-23|website=www.mechon-mamre.org}}
Material
The material of coats is not clear; instead, it is dubious. The Bible translates "coats" of skin and "garments" of skin as our mortal skin and animal' skin.{{Cite web|date=2018-05-26|title=The Lord made garments of skin -- whose skin? • Eve Out of the Garden|url=https://www.deilataylor.com/the-lord-made-garments-of-skin/|access-date=2021-07-23|website=Eve Out of the Garden|language=en-US}}
= Symbolic =
If clothes were of animal skin, the question arises, who killed the animal and what was that? These
=Wisdom=
The first man and woman didn't even know how to dress properly. Their fig-leaf aprons served no purpose. In their "shame" the first couple always found it necessary to hide themselves from God (Gen.3.8).
{{Quote|text=And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.|title=Genesis 3:8{{Cite web|last=endofthematter|date=2019-10-22|title=Hiding from God (Genesis 3:8)|url=https://endofthematter.com/2019/10/hiding-from-god/|access-date=2021-07-23|website=Endofthematter.com|language=en-US}}}}
God's creation of the "coats of skins" can thus be seen as a sign of his superior wisdom, his recognition of his people' true needs in light of their impending expulsion from the Garden.
{{Quote|text=And the LORD God made for Adam and his wife garments of skins and clothed them|title=Genesis 3:21{{Cite web|title=Genesis 3|url=https://www.esv.org/Genesis+3/|access-date=2021-07-23|website=ESV Bible|language=en}}}}
Gallery
File:Jan Brueghel de Oude en Peter Paul Rubens - Het aards paradijs met de zondeval van Adam en Eva.jpg|The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens, c. 1615, depicting both domestic and exotic wild animals such as tigers, parrots and ostriches co-existing in the garden
File:Peter Paul Rubens - Adam and Eve, after Titian, between 1628 and 1629.jpg|The Fall of Man by Peter Paul Rubens, 1628–29
File:Adam & Eve 02.jpg|Early Christian depiction of Adam and Eve in the Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter
File:Le Mans - Cathedrale St Julien CV 01.jpg|Detail of a stained glass window (12th century) in Saint-Julien cathedral - Le Mans, France
File:Meister Bertram von Minden 009.jpg|Depiction of the Fall in Kunsthalle Hamburg, by Master Bertram, 1375-1383
File:Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504, NGA 6610.jpg|alt=Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden|Adam and Eve, engraving by Albrecht Dürer, 1504 (National Gallery of Art)
File:Albrecht Dürer - Adam and Eve (Prado) 2.jpg|Adam and Eve by Albrecht Dürer, 1507
File:Lucas Cranach the Elder - Adam und Eva im Paradies (Sündenfall) - Google Art Project.jpg|Adam and Eve in paradise (The Fall), Eve gives Adam the forbidden fruit, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1533
File:Adam and Eve from a copy of the Falnama.jpg|Adam and Eve from a copy of the Falnama (Book of Omens) ascribed to Ja'far al-Sadiq, c. 1550, Safavid dynasty, Iran
File:Tizian 091.jpg|Adam and Eve by Titian, c. 1550
File:M. v. Heemskerck-Musée des Bx-Arts Strasbourg-Gédéon-Adam Eve-Ausschnitt 2.jpg|Adam and Eve by Maarten van Heemskerck, 1550
File:James Jacques Joseph Tissot - Adam and Eve Driven From Paradise - Google Art Project.jpg|Adam and Eve Driven From Paradise by James Tissot, c. 1896-1902
File:Abreha and Atsbeha Church - Adam and Eve 01.jpg|Adam and Eve depicted in a mural in Abreha wa Atsbeha Church, Ethiopia
File:Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.jpg|1896 illustration of Eve handing Adam the forbidden fruit
File:Temptation Adam Eva.jpg|Adam, Eve, and the (female) serpent (often identified as Lilith) at the entrance to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
File:Frank Eugene - Adam und Eva 1898.jpg|Adam and Eve by Frank Eugene, taken 1898, published in Camera Work no. 30, 1910
File:John Liston Byam Shaw The Woman The Man the Serpent.jpg|The Woman, the Man, and the Serpent by Byam Shaw, 1911
File:B Escorial 18.jpg|Adam and Eve in an illuminated manuscript (c. 950)
File:Franz-Von-Stuck-adam-and-Eve.jpg|Adam and Eve by Franz Stuck, 1920
File:God judging adam blake 1795.jpg|God Judging Adam by William Blake, 1795, Tate Collection