Genesis 2
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1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their host. 2On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. 3God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it he rested from all his work which God had created to do. 4These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven. 5Not yet was there any shrub of the field in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to work the ground. 6But a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7Then the LORD God formed the man, dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living soul. 8The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of the life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10A river went out from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four heads. 11The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that winds through the whole land of the Havilah, where there is the gold. 12And the gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there. 13The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that winds through the whole land of Cush. 14The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one that flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. 15The LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to work her and to keep her. 16The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From every tree of the garden eating you will eat; 17but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you will not eat from him, for in the day that you eat from him, dying you will die." 18The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make for him a helper as his counterpart." 19Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens, and brought them to the man to see what he would call it; and whatever the man called it, a living soul, that was its name. 20The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a helper as his counterpart. 21The LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up flesh in its place. 22And the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man he built into a woman, and he brought her to the man. 23The man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this will be called Woman, because from Man was this taken." 24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and join with his wife, and they will become one flesh. 25And the two of them were naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.
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Genesis 2
God completes His work and rests on the seventh day, then forms the man from dust, plants the lush garden of Eden, and creates the woman as his perfect counterpart.
The New Consensus Bible text of Genesis 2, read aloud over the chapter’s eight scenes. The words appear below as they are read.
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