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Genesis 2:25

וַ יִּהְיוּ שְׁנֵיהֶם עֲרוּמִּים הָ אָדָם וְ אִשְׁתֹּו וְ לֹא יִתְבֹּשָׁשׁוּ

And their double106 are becoming naked-ones,107 Red-one and his woman, and they are not causing themselves shame.108


107

Mortality Swallowed up

Strong’s #5903, erom. Naked. This is different from eryah (#6181) bare which is used figuratively of defenselessness and emptiness. Hence, “naked [erom] and bare [eryah]” (Eze. 16:7, 22, 39, 23:29). Erom, naked, is used figuratively of having nothing,

like him who has come out from the belly of his mother naked [erom], he is turning back to walk as he has come in; and he is not lifting anything in his toil which he might be causing to walk in his hand” Ecc. 5:15 RBT

And he is saying ‘Naked [arom] I have come out from the belly of my mother, and naked [erom] I am turning back there. Yahweh has given [him], and Yahweh has taken [him], may he become, the name of Yahweh, blessed.” Job 1:21 RBT

Paul sums it up nicely,

"For being those in the tabernacle we groan, being those burdened, because we do not will to be taken off, but put on [the mortal self] that the mortal may be swallowed up under the life." (2 Cor. 5:4 RBT)