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Genesis 3:12

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3:12The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave31 me some fruit32 from the tree and I ate it.”

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  1. 31 The Hebrew construction in this sentence uses an independent nominative absolute (formerly known as a casus pendens). “The woman” is the independent nominative absolute; it is picked up by the formal subject, the pronoun “she” written with the verb (“she gave”). The point of the construction is to throw the emphasis on “the woman.” But what makes this so striking is that a relative clause has been inserted to explain what is meant by the reference to the woman: “whom you gave me.” Ultimately, the man is blaming God for giving him the woman who (from the man’s viewpoint) caused him to sin.
  2. 32 The words “some fruit” here and the pronoun “it” at the end of the sentence are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for stylistic reasons.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The man replied, “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”

NLTNew Living Translation

The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And the man replied, “The woman whom you gave to be with me—she gave to me from the tree and I ate.”

KJV 1900King James Version

And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.