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Eve is named in Genesis 3
The woman is first called "Eve" in Genesis 3:20, after the fall: "because she would be the mother of all the living". Genesis 3:20
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In Genesis 2 the man calls her "woman". After God's words of judgment, "The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living." Genesis 2:23Genesis 3:20
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Genesis 3:20 WEB
20The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.