Later, nakedness in the presence of others will be embarrassing, and it will be improper in the presence of God (3:7; Ex. 20:26; 28:42–43), but now, because the man and the woman are in exactly the relationship with God and others that God created them to have, there is no hint of any impropriety in their nakedness.9 This part of the story implies two further mandates for the man and the woman beyond the mandates to rule over the animal world and to rest on the Sabbath. A third mandate is to trust