OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 3:8

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They heard the LORD God’s voice 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.

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Verse 8. Afternoon air. God’s presence has often been indicated by an unusual wind. 3 Kings 19:12. Acts 2:2. The sovereign judge will not suffer the day to pass over, without bringing our first parents to a sense of their fault. They hid themselves, loving darkness now, because their works were evil.

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