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The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.
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Verse 20. The living. Hebrew chai, one who brings forth alive, (Symmachus) or one who imparts life, in which she was a figure of the blessed Virgin. Calmet.—Adam gives his wife this new name, in gratitude for not being cut off by death on the very day of his transgression, as he had every reason to expect and fear he would have been. Calmet. 2:17. Bible.—The printed Hebrew reads here, and in many other place, Eva, he, instead of Eja, she; thus, He was the mother, verse 12. he gave, and so forth an inaccuracy unknown to the Samar. and the best MS. copies. Kennicott.
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