the first comment is just silly - of course they were aware of what state they were in.
They covered themselves because of fear (They were afraid) of God.
God's covering of skins prefigured salvation
As husband and wife the story does NOT sanction their nakedness with each other if you take that line about what the story teaches, but rather the opposite - they should not see each other naked! There was no other human there at the time.
But the story is about sin and salvation, not clothing. The use of two different hebrew words for nakedness is Chs 1 & 2 is illustrative of that.
John
NZ
I know the story in Genesis very well my friend, you cannot so easily pull the wool over my eyes.
Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
They did not make themselves aprons because they were afraid of God but because they were naked, and now knew it. The aprons were made before they became afraid of God. Their fear of God caused them to hide.
Genesis 3:8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said, "Where art thou?
Genesis 3:10 And he [Adam] said, I heard thy voice in the garden,
and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself
Genesis 3:11 And he [God] said, Who told thee thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat?
Why did Adam say he was afraid? Because he was naked.
I did not say that the story sanctioned nakedness between husband and wife. The law does that.
While it is true that Genesis 2 & 3 [not 1 & 2] appear to use two different words, if you look again and at the etemology of both words you will discover that they are merely derivations of the same word, not different words at all.
The knowledge of nudity came with the eating of the fruit. Prior to that they had no knowledge of it. That is clear from the tale that is told.