Genesis 3:10
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the orchard. 9 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” 10 The man replied, “I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.” 11 And the Lord God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”
Isaiah 47:3
1 “Fall down! Sit in the dirt, O virgin daughter Babylon! Sit on the ground, not on a throne, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called delicate and pampered. 2 Pick up millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off your skirt, expose your legs, cross the streams. 3 Let your naked body be exposed. Your shame will be on display! I will get revenge; I will not have pity on anyone,” 4 says our Protector—the Lord of Heaven’s Armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel. 5 “Sit silently! Go to a hiding place, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called ‘Queen of kingdoms.’
Notes and References
"... In order to harmonize nakedness, a catchword central to the Yahwist composition, and connect it with other parts of the text, we find in Genesis 2:25 before the temptations: “And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed,” implying that there was no ‘guilt’ before the serpent intervened. In Genesis 3:10 both hide because they are naked (whereas three verses earlier they have made their own loincloths) and because they are afraid. Nakedness is again present in Genesis 3:11 where the Lord God said: “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” ... Isaiah’s own nakedness is used to prefigure Egypt and Ethiopia’s downfall. The prophet’s nakedness is an allegory of Israel’s shame that will be avenged, roles at long last inverted. The Lord said to Isaiah “Go loose the sackcloth from your loins and take the sandals off your feet” and he had done so, walking naked and barefoot. Then the Lord said “Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years, as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Ethiopia, so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as captives, and the Ethiopians as exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.” (After Assyria had conquered Israel in 740, many fled to Egypt for safety ... Esarhaddon in 671 BCE took Egypt with surprise and ease, drove out the Ethiopian rulers and destroyed the Kushite Empire in the process) Isaiah 47:3 ... humiliation of Babylon: The town is addressed as ‘virgin daughter’, again a feminine allegory. “Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one.” ..."
Wells, Chris Albert Adam and Eve Misguided: Ancient Israel's Original Sins (pp. 1-20) Université Paris, 2020