20Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.


In Context

17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

22 And the Lord God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

Genesis 3:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:20And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:20And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:20And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:20And Man called his wife's name Eve; because she is the mother of all living.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:20And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:20And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:20The man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:20And the man calleth his wife's name Eve: for she hath been mother of all living.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:20And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.