Genesis 2
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1So the heavens and the earth and everything in them # Lit and all their host were completed. # Neh 9:6; Ps 33:6; Is 34:4; 45:12 2By the seventh # Sam, LXX, Syr read sixth day God completed His work that He had done, and He rested # Or ceased on the seventh day from all His work that He had done. # Ex 20:8-11; 31:17; Dt 5:12-14; Heb 4:4 3God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it He rested # Ex 31:17 from His work of creation. # Lit work that God created to make # Ex 20:11; 31:17; Ps 121:2
Man and Woman in the Garden
4These are the records # Gn 5:1; 6:9; 10:1; 11:10,27; 25:12,19; 36:1,9; 37:2 of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation at the time # Lit creation on the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. 5No shrub of the field # Gn 1:11-12 had yet grown on the land, # Or earth and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground. 6But water would come out of the ground and water the entire surface of the land. 7Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground # Gn 3:19,23; 18:27; Ps 103:14; Ec 12:7; 1Co 15:47 and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, # Gn 7:22; Jb 33:4; Is 2:22 and the man became a living being. # 1Co 15:45
8The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, # Gn 13:10; Is 51:3; Ezk 28:13; 31:8; Jl 2:3 and there He placed the man He had formed. 9The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, # Gn 3:22; Rv 2:7; 22:2,14 as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. # Pr 3:18
10A river went # Or goes out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers. # Lit became four heads 11The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah, # Or of the Havilah # Gn 10:7,29; 25:18; 1Sm 15:7 where there is gold. 12Gold from that land is pure; # Lit good bdellium # A yellowish, transparent gum resin and onyx # Identity of this precious stone uncertain are also there. 13The name of the second river is Gihon, which flows through the entire land of Cush. 14The name of the third river is the Tigris, # Dn 10:4 which runs east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. # Gn 15:18
15The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it. 16And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, # Gn 3:1-2 17but you must not eat # Lit eat from it from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.” # Gn 3:5; Dt 30:15,19-20; Rm 6:23; 1Tm 5:6; Jms 1:15 18Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his complement.” # Pr 31:11-12; 1Co 11:9; 1Tm 2:13 19So the Lord God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it. # Ps 8:6 And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. 20The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man # Or for Adam no helper was found as his complement. 21So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, # Gn 15:12 and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place. 22Then the Lord God made the rib He had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man. # 1Co 11:8,12 23And the man said:
This one, at last, is bone of my bone
and flesh of my flesh;
this one will be called “woman,”
for she was taken from man. # Eph 5:28-30
24This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh. # Mal 2:15; Mt 19:5; Mk 10:7-8; 1Co 6:16; Eph 5:31 25Both the man and his wife were naked, yet felt no shame.
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Genesis 2
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Chapter 2
1In that way God finished making the heavens and the earth, and everything that was in them.
2The seventh day came. Then God stopped the work that he had been doing. He had finished his work and he rested on the seventh day.
3God blessed the seventh day. He made it a special day, because he had finished making everything. He did not work on that day.
God makes a man and a woman
4This is what happened when God made the heavens and the earth.
When the Lord God made the heavens and the earth, 5there were no plants or grasses growing on the earth. #2:5 When we write Lord like this, it is a special name for God. Sometimes people write it as ‘Yahweh’, or as ‘Jehovah’. It means ‘I am who I am’. This shows that God has always been alive and he will always be alive. That was because the Lord God had not sent any rain on the earth. Also, there was nobody to dig the soil so that plants would grow. 6But streams of water were coming up from the earth. The water made all the top of the ground wet.
7Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and he made a man. He breathed air into the nose of the man to give him life. So the man became alive.
8The Lord God planted a garden. It was in the east, in a place called Eden. #2:8 ‘in the east’ means that it was east of the land of Canaan. Canaan was the land that God gave to his people as their home much later on. God took the man that he had made and he put him in the garden. 9The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the ground there. The trees were beautiful to look at. The fruit from the trees was good for people to eat. #2:9 Eden was a very good place for the man to live. Everything that the man needed was there. In the middle of the garden were two special trees. One was the tree that gives life. The other was the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is evil. #2:9 Fruit from the first tree would cause people to live for ever with God. Fruit from the second tree would cause people to know about good things and bad things. They would understand the difference between these.
10A river began in Eden. It went through the garden and it gave water for the ground. After that, it became four separate rivers. 11The name of the first river is the Pishon. It goes through the whole land of Havilah. There is gold in that land. 12The gold there is very good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also in Havilah. #2:12 Bdellium is something that has a nice smell. It comes from certain trees when you cut them. Onyx is a valuable stone.
13The name of the second river is the Gihon. It goes through the whole land of Cush. 14The third river is called the Tigris. It goes along the east side of Assyria. The fourth river is called the Euphrates.
15The Lord God took the man and he put him in the Garden of Eden. God wanted the man to work in the garden and to take care of it. 16Then the Lord God told the man, ‘You may eat the fruit from any tree in the garden, as much as you like. 17But you must not eat any fruit from the tree that gives knowledge of good and evil. If you do eat fruit from that tree, that day you will certainly die.’
18Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a helper who is right for him.’ #2:18 The helper was someone to live with the man. She would be the right person for him and would help him.
19The Lord God took soil from the ground and he made all the animals and birds. He brought them to the man. God wanted to know what names the man would call them. Whatever the man called each living thing, that became its name. 20So the man gave names to the farm animals, to the birds in the sky and to all the other animals.
But none of these animals was the right helper for the man. 21So the Lord God caused the man to sleep. #2:21 The Lord God caused the man to sleep. The man did not just sleep because he was tired. He would sleep like that until God made him wake. While the man was sleeping, God took a rib from the man. Then he closed up the place in his body and he covered it again. #2:21 A rib is a bone in the side of someone's body. God made the woman from the rib that he took from the man. 22The Lord God used the man's rib to make a woman. He brought the woman to the man.
23Then the man said, ‘Finally, this is someone who is right for me. She has bones that are taken from my bones. Her body comes from my body. I will call her “woman” because God used me, a man, to make her.’
24Because of this, when a man marries, he leaves his father and his mother. Instead, God joins the man and his wife together. The two people become as one body. #2:24 This verse tells us about how a man and his wife should live after their marriage. They become a new family that is separate from their parents' families.
25The man and his wife were not wearing any clothes. But they did not feel ashamed.
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