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Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*
In the garden, when God made clothes for Adam and Eve, he made them both coats. It doesn't mention that he made them different at all.
Throughout Bible times men and women both wore robes (dresses). There was supposed to be a fringe on one of them to differentiate, but that's all.
It just doesn't seem like a biblical concept that men and women's clothing must be drastically different.
Actually, this forum is full of threads discussing this very subject.  A lot of interesting discussions. |
And, an English Bible which is older than the King James Version and considered "more Protestant" than the Anglican Catholic King James Version says, "Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig tree leaves together, and made themselves breeches." That's verse 7 of chapter 3 of Genesis. Then verse 21 says, "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them."
There is a marginal note for verse 7 for the word "breeches" which says, "Hebrew, things to gird about them and hide their privities."
There is also a marginal note for verse 21 which says "or gave them knowledge to make themselves coats."
This is from the 1599 Geneva Bible. It was translated by English Protestants in Geneva while they were banned from England by Bloody Queen Mary. Later when James was King he authorized what we know as the King James Bible for the Anglican or Episcopal or English Catholic Church. These godly reformers considered James a pervert. The Geneva Bible is the one the Pilgrims brought to America with them. The KJV to them represented the state Church.