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In Genesis 3 the woman eats the forbidden fruit and hands some to her husband. Where does the text say he is at that moment?

The answer

With her. Genesis 3:6 says she "also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate." The text puts him at the scene. It does not say he came along later, or that she had to go and find him.

Why it’s interesting

When God asks about it, the man points at the woman: "she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate" (Genesis 3:12). A study Bible, the New Oxford Annotated Bible, notes that later readers have tended to follow the man in blaming the woman.

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