Passage Lookup

Genesis 2

The Creation of Man and Woman

   ¹Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all ^(A)their hosts.

   ²By ^(B)the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and ^(C)He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

   ³Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

   ^4(D)This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in ^(E)the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.

   ^5(F)Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, ^(G)for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

   ⁶But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

   ⁷Then the LORD God formed man of ^(H)dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and ^(I)man became a living being.

   ⁸The LORD God planted a ^(J)garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.

   ⁹Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow ^(K)every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; ^(L)the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

   ¹⁰Now a ^(M)river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers.

   ¹¹The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of ^(N)Havilah, where there is gold.

   ¹²The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there.

   ¹³The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush.

   ¹⁴The name of the third river is ^(O)Tigris; it flows east of Assyria And the fourth river is the ^(P)Euphrates.

   ¹⁵Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.

   ¹⁶The LORD God ^(Q)commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;

   ¹⁷but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it ^(R)you will surely die."

   ¹⁸Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; ^(S)I will make him a helper ^[a]suitable for him."

   ^19(T)Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and ^(U)brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.

   ²⁰The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for ^[b]Adam there was not found ^(V)a helper suitable for him.

   ²¹So the LORD God caused a ^(W)deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.

   ²²The LORD God ^[c]fashioned into a woman ^(X)the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

   ²³The man said,
         "^(Y)This is now bone of my bones,
         And flesh of my flesh;
         She shall be called Woman,
         Because she was taken out of Man."

   ^24(Z)For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

   ^25(AA)And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

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