Genesis 3:20 - Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ And Adam called the name of his wife, 'Eve,' because she was the mother of all the living.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ The man called his wife's name Eve [life spring], because she was the mother of all the living.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And the man called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Common English Bible

²⁰ The man named his wife Eve because she is the mother of everyone who lives.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ And Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living.

English Standard Version 2016

²⁰ The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

Genesis 3:20 Cross References

Genesis 16:11

But thereafter he said: "Behold, you have conceived, and you will give birth to a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your affliction.

Genesis 2:20

And Adam called each of the living things by their names: all the flying creatures of the air, and all the wild beasts of the land. Yet truly, for Adam, there was not found a helper similar to himself.

Genesis 2:23

And Adam said: "Now this is bone from my bones, and flesh from my flesh. This one shall be called woman, because she was taken from man."

Genesis 3:21

The Lord God also made for Adam and his wife garments from skins, and he clothed them.

Genesis 35:18

Then, when her life was departing because of the pain, and death was now imminent, she called the name of her son Benoni, that is, the son of my pain. Yet truly, his father called him Benjamin, that is, the son of the right hand.

Genesis 5:29

And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one will console us from the works and hardships of our hands, in the land that the Lord has cursed."

Exodus 2:10

And she adopted him in place of a son, and she called his name Moses, saying, "Because I took him from the water."

Matthew 1:21

And she shall give birth to a son. And you shall call his name JESUS. For he shall accomplish the salvation of his people from their sins."

Matthew 1:23

"Behold, a virgin shall conceive in her womb, and she shall give birth to a son. And they shall call his name Emmanuel, which means: God is with us."

Acts 17:26

And he has made, out of one, every family of man: to live upon the face of the entire earth, determining the appointed seasons and the limits of their habitation,

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid lest, as the serpent led astray Eve by his cleverness, so your minds might be corrupted and might fall away from the simplicity which is in Christ.

1 Timothy 2:13

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

1 Samuel 1:20

And it happened that, in the course of days, Hannah conceived and bore a son. And she called his name Samuel, because she had requested him from the Lord.