comfortable with themselves (v. 7). They hide from God (v. 8). Then, when God questions Adam, the latter immediately casts the blame on his wife, and indirectly on God Himself, who gave Adam that wife (vv. 11–12). Eve in her turn blames the snake (v. 12). God then curses all three, in reverse order: first the snake (vv. 14–15), then Eve (v. 16), and finally Adam (vv. 17–19). Even as God drives Adam and Eve from the garden, however, He provides better clothing for them (v. 21). This is important.