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Genesis 2

The Creation of Man and Woman

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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all  atheir hosts.

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By  athe seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and  bHe rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

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Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created  1and made.

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 1 aThis is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in  bthe day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.

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 aNow no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted,  bfor the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to  1cultivate the ground.

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But a  1mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole  2surface of the ground.

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Then the LORD God formed man of  adust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and  bman became a living  1being.

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The LORD God planted a  agarden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.

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Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow  aevery tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food;  bthe tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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Now a  ariver  1flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four  2rivers.

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The name of the first is Pishon; it  1flows around the whole land of  aHavilah, where there is gold.

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The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there.

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The name of the second river is Gihon; it  1flows around the whole land of Cush.

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The name of the third river is  1 aTigris; it  2flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the  3 bEuphrates.

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Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.

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The LORD God  acommanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;

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but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not  1eat, for in the day that you eat from it  ayou will surely die."

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Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone;  aI will make him a helper  1suitable for him."

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 aOut of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the  1sky, and  bbrought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.

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The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the  1sky, and to every beast of the field, but for  2Adam there was not found  aa helper  3suitable for him.

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So the LORD God caused a  adeep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.

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The LORD God  1fashioned into a woman  athe rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

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The man said, " aThis is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh;  1She shall be called  2Woman, Because  1she was taken out of  3Man."

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 aFor this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

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 aAnd the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.



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