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The Septuagint 3.11 · 3.11

Who told you that you were naked?

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καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Τίς ἀνήγγειλέν σοι ὅτι γυμνὸς εἶ, εἰ μὴ ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου οὗ ἐνετειλάμην σοι τούτου μόνου μὴ φαγεῖν, ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ ἔφαγες;

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The setting

God's question exposes the gap in Adam's logic: nakedness was already the given condition (2:25); knowledge of it as shameful is new, and could only have come from the one place God forbade. The question presses toward confession without yet naming the deed, giving Adam room to own it himself — room he will decline to use in the very next verse.

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