Before the fall, Adam and Eve were naked and not ashamed in the garden (Genesis 2:25). After the fall, they saw their nakedness (3:7), and their behavior manifests shame, even though the word is not used.
In the LXX, the two words “naked” and some form of “shame” are used together only twice. In Isaiah 20:4, the words are used to describe the people of Israel as they are driven into exile by Assyria naked and exposed. It is a new expulsion from Eden.
In Ezekiel 23:29, Yahweh threatens to hand Jerusalem and Samaria over to their enemies so that they will be stripped and exposed and theuir immorality will be evident to all. Tis like another fall of man.
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