of Eden: “Jehovah God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins, and clothed them (Gen. 3:21). The skins were animal skins. The nakedness that the element of sin now revealed needed to be covered. But the covering required the death of several animals and so, for the first time in history, blood was shed. This provides the root meaning of the Hebrew word for atonement, which is “a covering.” The necessity of blood was a lesson soon learned by the sons of the first human couple. The time came