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Sforno on Genesis 3:8/ספורנו על בראשית ג׳:ח׳

אמִתְהַלֵּךְ בַּגָּן. אָנָה וְאָנָה כְּפִי הַתַּכְלִית הַמְכֻוָּן, כְּמוֹ "הִתְהַלֵּךְ בָּאָרֶץ" (בראשית יג:יז) וְ"יִתְהַלְּכוּ מִגּוֹי אֶל גּוֹי" (תהלים קה:יג).
1מתהלך בגן, back and forth, in accordance with the requirements of their purpose. The word is similar in meaning to Genesis 13,17 where Avraham is instructed by G’d התהלך to “crisscross the land of Canaan, in order to symbolically lay claim to it.” The same construction is also found in Psalms 105,13 ויתהלכו מגוי אל גוי, “they wandered from nation to nation.”
בלְרוּחַ הַיּוֹם. לִרְצוֹן הַיּוֹם לַעֲשׂוֹת הַדְּבָרִים הַנִּרְצִים בְּאוֹתוֹ יוֹם, כְּמוֹ שֶׁעָשָׂה בִּשְׁאָר יְמֵי בְרֵאשִׁית, וּכְמוֹ שֶׁעָשָׂה בְּאוֹתוֹ יוֹם קֹדֶם חֶטְאָם:
2לרוח היום, according to His pleasure on that day. The word רוח is used in the abstract, spiritual sense, not referring to a breeze. This is no different that what G’d had also done during the other days of creation, and as He had been doing on this same day (sixth day of creation) prior to Adam’s sin.
גוַיִּתְחַבֵּא. כְּאָמְרוֹ "וְלֹא יִרְאֶה בְךָ עֶרְוַת דָּבָר" (דברים כג:טו).
3ויתחבא, as the Torah wrote in Deuteronomy 23,15 ולא יראה בך ערות דבר, “no exposure of genitals (or other shameful matters) shall be visible on you.”