Genesis 3:21

coats of skins in reference to Genesis 3:7. The sense of shame is the result of the knowledge of evil.

The present verse gives the traditional explanation of the origin of clothes. The word "coats" hardly represents the Hebrew so well as LXX χιτῶνας, and Lat. "tunicas," cf. 2 Kings 1:8; Hebrews 11:37. The Heb. k'thôneth(χιτῶν) was a kind of shirt without sleeves, reaching down to the knees.

The first mention of death among animals is implied in this provision for man's clothing. Does it contain an allusion to the otherwise unrecorded institution of sacrifice?

The Divine sentence of punishment is thus followed at once by a Divine act of pity, as if to certify that chastisement is inflicted not in anger, but in affection.