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And Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, Where are you?
On one kind of plain-sense reading, one could take this verse as containing an implicit denial of divine omnipotence. Thus, Rashi says, God is asking in order to be conversational -- to avoid overwhelming Adam by simply showing up and announcing Adam's punishment suddenly.
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