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[Inner Cycles] > Genesis 3 - Gimel - The Fall
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Spoke 3

Genesis 3 chain Gimel chain The Fall

And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

Genesis 3.9

Genesis 3 introduces the fall of Adam and Eve and the loss of the comfort of God's fellowship. It contains the seeds of all the great themes of Spoke 3. This is seen in the verse above, which contains the Hebrew names of the first two books on Spoke 3:

(V'yiqra, and he called). This is the Hebrew name of Leviticus. It integrates with the great theme of God calling us with the voice of His Spirit that dominates Spoke 3.
(Aikah, Where art thou?). Without the vowel points, this word is identical to the name of Lamentations, Aikah. The root (Ayee) has the various meanings of how, where, and Alas!. It is a pun on the cry of grief - Eeeeaaaah!. Aikah is translated as "How" in the first verse of Lamentations: "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!"

The verse above also introduces the idea of shameful nakedness, which is a major theme of Spoke 3. It is seen in the many prohibitions against various forms of nakedness in Leviticus, which contains the greatest density of this word in all Scripture. This integrates with the Gimel-KeyWord galah, which means uncover, disclose, discover or make naked. Both of these words galah (uncover) and arah (nakedness) occur with great frequency in Leviticus (vs. 18.6f):

None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD. The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.

The list goes on and on. Leviticus contains 16 verses that use these words uncover and nakedness, both of which are primary themes emerging from Genesis 3. Note also that God himself made "aprons" to cover their sin.

The correlation of Spoke 3 with "nakedness" can be seen in the