The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
Up to this point in the book of Genesis Eve was referred to as the woman. She did not have a name in Genesis 2 or 3. At this point she was just the rib from the side of man. Her identity was established after the sin of eating the fruit. There is nothing that significant here, other than her identity is established post sin. She is still going to be the mother of all living, but now all living would be born in sin. This is the curse in practical terms.
We also read that God made garments of skin and clothed them. Adam and Eve were naked and ashamed. Their fig leaf undergarments would not be sufficient. Now that they were leaving the confines of the garden, they would need to be covered. Although implied, this is the first mention in the Bible of a sacrificial death. Some animal in the Garden lost their life for this skin garment. This is an expression of both God’s sacrificial atonement and His grace. He killed an animal to cover them. This is a picture of the coming atonement of His Son. God would send His Son to give His life to cover man’s sin, that began in the Garden. In all the stories of the Bible there is this seed of God’s grace. He will send Adam and Eve out of the garden, into the world, covered by the blood of a sacrifice. This is God’s grace. Their prior man-made clothing was not going to cover them. So, too, man’s works do not cover them. From this point forward man will attempt to cover himself with man-made works. But it is only the grace of God, covering man with blood sacrifice, that will sufficiently take away man’s sin.
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