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GENESIS 2
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And evening passed and morning came,
marking the sixth day.
So the creation of the heavens and
2completed.
the earth and everything in them was
On the seventh day God had
2
finished his work of creation, so he rested*
from all his work. 3And God blessed the
seventh day and declared it holy, because
it was the day when he rested from all his
work of creation.
ening passed and morning came, made a woman from the rib, and he brought
her to the man.
23 “At last!” the man exclaimed.
2:2 Rest was part
of creation from
tion, sothe
he rested*
beginning.
, because
“This one is bone from my bone,
and flesh from my flesh!
She will be called ‘woman,’
because she was taken from ‘man.’”
This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth.
24 This explains why a man leaves his father
and mother and is joined to his wife, and the
two are united into one.
25 Now the man and his wife were both
vnaked, but they felt no shame.
The Man and Woman in Eden
When the Lord God made the earth and the
heavens, 5 neither wild plants nor grains
were growing on the earth. For the Lord God
had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and
there were no people to cultivate the soil.
6 Instead, springs* came up from the ground
and watered all the land. 7 Then the Lord God
formed the man from the dust of the ground.
He breathed the breath of life into the man’s
nostrils, and the man became a living person.
8 Then the Lord God planted a garden in
Eden in the east, and there he placed the man
he had made. 9 The Lord God made all sorts of
trees grow up from the ground—trees that
were beautiful and that produced delicious
fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed
the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil.
10 A river flowed from the land of Eden,
watering the garden and then dividing into
four branches. 11 The first branch, called the
Pishon, flowed around the entire land of Havilah, where gold is found. 12 The gold of that
land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and
onyx stone are also found there. 13 The second
branch, called the Gihon, flowed around the
entire land of Cush. 14 The third branch, called
the Tigris, flowed east of the land of Asshur.
The fourth branch is called the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it. 16 But the
Lord God warned him, “You may freely eat
the fruit of every tree in the garden—17 except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”
18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good
for the man to be alone. I will make a helper
who is just right for him.” 19 So the Lord God
formed from the ground all the wild animals
and all the birds of the sky. He brought them
to the man* to see what he would call them,
and the man chose a name for each one. 20 He
gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of
the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there
was no helper just right for him.
21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall
into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the
Lord God took out one of the man’s ribs* and
closed up the opening. 22 Then the Lord God
The Man and Woman Sin
the
The serpent was the shrewdest of all the
wild animals the Lord God had made. One
grains
God day he asked the woman, “Did God really say
and you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees
soil. in the garden?”
2 “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees
ground
God in the garden,” the woman replied. 3 “It’s only
ground. the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garman’s den that we are not allowed to eat. God said,
ving person. ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do,
in you will die.’”
4 “You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the
man
of woman. 5 “God knows that your eyes will be
that opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be
delicious like God, knowing both good and evil.”
6 The woman was convinced. She saw that
laced
wledge the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would
Eden, give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate
into it. Then she gave some to her husband, who
the was with her, and he ate it, too. 7At that mov- ment their eyes were opened, and they sudthat denly felt shame at their nakedness. So they
and sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.
8 When the cool evening breezes were blowsecond
3:9 Even after the fall,
the ing, the man* and his wife heard the Lord God
called walking about in the garden. So they hid from
God still pursued them.
shur. the Lord God among the trees. 9 Then the Lord
He still pursues us as
God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He replied, “I heard you walking in the
Garsinners.
the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was
eat naked.”
11 “Who told you that you were naked?” the
exevil. Lord God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree
whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?”
12 The man replied, “It was the woman you
good
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helper gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”
matters deeply to God d 13 Then the Lord God asked the woman,
imals “What have you done?”
them
“The serpent deceived me,” she replied.
them, “That’s why I ate it.”
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Then the Lord God said to the serpent,
He
of
“Because you have done this, you are
there
cursed
more than all animals, domestic and
all
wild.
he
You will crawl on your belly,
and
groveling in the dust as long as you live.
God
y when he rested from all his
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