Or, more formally, "Who told thee that thou wast naked? " Thus spake God to Adam and Eve, after they broke the rules, and deigned to "be as gods, knowing good and evil."
https://www.bible.com/
Erich Fromm, a German-born U.S. psychoanalyst and social philosopher, in The Art of Loving interprets it this way:
After Adam and Eve have eaten of the "tree of knowledge of good and evil," after they have disobeyed (there is no good and evil unless there is freedom to disobey), after they have become human by having emancipated themselves from the original animal harmony with nature, i.e., after their birth as human beings—they saw "that they were naked—and they were ashamed.
http://archive.org/.... [requires pdf reader download]
I have a different take. If you're interested, please slip through the "infinity symbol" a la Kos below, and explore with me.
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