Kejadian 3:8

The Judgment Oracles of God at the Fall

3:8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God moving about ¹  in the orchard at the breezy time ²  of the day, and they hid ³  from the Lord God among the trees of the orchard.

Kejadian 12:14

12:14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Markus 4:22

4:22 For nothing is hidden except to be revealed, ⁴  and nothing concealed except to be brought to light.

Markus 4:1

The Parable of the Sower

4:1 Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while ⁵  the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.

1 Korintus 4:5

4:5 So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will ⁶  bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts. Then each will receive recognition ⁷  from God.

Ibrani 4:13

4:13 And no creature is hidden from God, ⁸  but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

[3:8]  ¹ tn The Hitpael participle of הָלָךְ (halakh, “to walk, to go”) here has an iterative sense, “moving” or “going about.” While a translation of “walking about” is possible, it assumes a theophany, the presence of the Lord God in a human form. This is more than the text asserts.

[3:8]  ² tn The expression is traditionally rendered “cool of the day,” because the Hebrew word רוּחַ (ruakh) can mean “wind.” U. Cassuto (Genesis: From Adam to Noah, 152-54) concludes after lengthy discussion that the expression refers to afternoon when it became hot and the sun was beginning to decline. J. J. Niehaus (God at Sinai [SOTBT], 155-57) offers a different interpretation of the phrase, relating יוֹם (yom, usually understood as “day”) to an Akkadian cognate umu (“storm”) and translates the phrase “in the wind of the storm.” If Niehaus is correct, then God is not pictured as taking an afternoon stroll through the orchard, but as coming in a powerful windstorm to confront the man and woman with their rebellion. In this case קוֹל יְהוָה (qol yÿhvah, “sound of the Lord”) may refer to God’s thunderous roar, which typically accompanies his appearance in the storm to do battle or render judgment (e.g., see Ps 29).

[3:8]  ³ tn The verb used here is the Hitpael, giving the reflexive idea (“they hid themselves”). In v. 10, when Adam answers the Lord, the Niphal form is used with the same sense: “I hid.”

[4:22]  ⁴ tn Or “disclosed.”

[4:1]  ⁵ tn Grk “and all the crowd.” The clause in this phrase, although coordinate in terms of grammar, is logically subordinate to the previous clause.

[4:5]  ⁶ tn Grk “time, until the Lord comes, who will bring to light.”

[4:5]  ⁷ tn Or “praise.”

[4:13]  ⁸ tn Grk “him”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.