QUOTE : After Adam and Eve fall, they are immediately conscious of their shame and vulnerability. “We’ll fix it,” they say to themselves. So they make coverings for themselves out of fig leaves. When the Lord calls them to account, he lets them know that the death they’ve brought into the world cannot so easily be concealed. And yet he does not wish to leave them naked and afraid. Instead he covers them with the skins of animals. This is perhaps the first instance of sacrificial covering, long before the official institution of the sacrifices in the Levitical system. “You cannot cover you,” the Lord says. “But I can. And I will.