Genesis 2
1Now
the heavens and the earth were
completed and all their
host.
2And God completed on the
seventh day
His work that He did, and He abstained on the seventh day from all
His work that He did.
3And God blessed the seventh day and
He hallowed it, for thereon He abstained from all His work that God
created to do.
4These are the
generations of the
heavens and the earth when they were created, on the day that the
Lord God made earth and heaven.
5Now no tree of the field was yet on the earth neither did any herb of the field yet grow, because the Lord God had not brought rain upon the earth, and there was no man to work the soil.
6And
a mist ascended from the earth and watered the entire surface of the
ground.
7And the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and He breathed into his nostrils the soul of life, and man became a living soul.
8And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden from the east, and He placed there the man whom He had formed.
9And the Lord God caused to sprout from the ground every
tree pleasant to see and good to eat, and the
Tree of Life in the midst of the
garden, and the
Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
10And a river flowed out of Eden to
water the garden, and from there it separated and became four heads.
11The name of one is Pishon ; that is the one that encompasses all the land of Havilah , where there is gold.
12And the gold of that land is good;
there is the crystal and the onyx stone.
13And the name of the second river is
Gihon ; that is the one that encompasses all
the
land of Cush .
14And the name of the third river is
Tigris ; that is the one that flows to the
east of
Assyria , and the fourth river that is the
Euphrates .
15Now the Lord God took the man, and
He placed him in the Garden of Eden to work it and to guard it.
16And the Lord God commanded man,
saying, ‘Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat.
17But of the Tree of Knowledge of good
and evil you shall not eat of it, for on the day that you eat
thereof, you shall surely die.’
18And the Lord God said, ‘It is not
good that man is alone; I shall make him a helpmate opposite him.’
19And the Lord God formed from the
earth every beast of the field and every fowl of the heavens, and He
brought [it] to man to see what he would call it, and whatever the
man called each living thing, that was its name.
20And man named all the cattle and the
fowl of the heavens and all the beasts of the field, but for man, he
did not find a
helpmate opposite him.
21And the Lord God caused a deep sleep
to fall upon man, and he slept, and He took one of his sides, and He
closed the flesh in its place.
22And the Lord God built the side that
He had taken from man into a woman, and He brought her to man.
23And man said, ‘This
time, it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one shall
be called
ishah (woman) because this one was taken from ish (man).’
24Therefore, a man shall leave his
father and his mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall become
one flesh.
25Now they were both naked, the man and his wife, but they were not ashamed.
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