KJV King James Version
And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where [art] thou?
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Genesis 3:9
And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where [art] thou?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”
WEB World English Bible
Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
ASV American Standard Version
And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Jehovah God calleth unto the man, and saith to him, ‘Where art thou?’
Surrounding context — Genesis 3
6 And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they [were] naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where [art] thou?
10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I [was] naked; and I hid myself.
11 And he said, Who told thee that thou [wast] naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
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Genesis 4:9And the LORD said unto Cain, Where [is] Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: [Am] I my brother’s keeper?Joshua 7:17-19And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:Genesis 16:8And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.Genesis 18:20-21And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;Genesis 11:5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.Revelation 20:12-13And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
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