KJV King James Version
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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Genesis 2:25
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.
WEB World English Bible
They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
ASV American Standard Version
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And they are both of them naked, the man and his wife, and they are not ashamed of themselves.
Surrounding context — Genesis 2
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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Genesis 3:7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.Genesis 3:10-11And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I [was] naked; and I hid myself.Romans 10:11For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.Joel 2:26And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.Jeremiah 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.Isaiah 47:3Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet [thee as] a man.Isaiah 54:4Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.Psalm 25:3Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.Exodus 32:25And when Moses saw that the people [were] naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto [their] shame among their enemies:)Ezekiel 16:61Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.Luke 9:26For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and [in his] Father’s, and of the holy angels.Jeremiah 6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time [that] I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.Mark 8:38Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.Psalm 31:17Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, [and] let them be silent in the grave.Isaiah 44:9They that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
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