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GENESIS 2
animals on the earth,* and the small
animals that scurry along the ground.”
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So God created human beings* in his
own image.
In the image of God he created
them;
male and female he created them.
28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be
fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and
govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea,
the birds in the sky, and all the animals
that scurry along the ground.”
29 Then God said, “Look! I have given
you every seed-bearing plant throughout
the earth and all the fruit trees for your
food. 30And I have given every green
plant as food for all the wild animals,
the birds in the sky, and the small
animals that scurry along the ground—
everything that has life.” And that is what
happened.
31 Then God looked over all he had
made, and he saw that it was very good!
And evening passed and morning
came, marking the sixth day.
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So the creation of the heavens and
the earth and everything in them was
completed. 2On the seventh day God
had 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.
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The Man and Woman in Eden
When the Lord God made the earth and the
heavens, 5neither 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. 7Then 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. 9The Lord God made all sorts of
trees grow up from the ground—trees that
were beautiful and that produced delicious
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10A river flowed from the land of Eden,
watering the garden and then dividing into
four branches. 11The first branch, called the
Pishon, flowed around the entire land of Havilah, where gold is found. 12The gold of that
land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and
onyx stone are also found there. 13The second
branch, called the Gihon, flowed around the
entire land of Cush. 14The 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. 16But
the Lord God warned him, “You may freely
eat the fruit of every tree in the garden—17except 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.” 19So 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. 20He
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. 22Then the Lord God
made a woman from the rib, and he brought
her to the man.
23 “At last!” the man exclaimed.
“This one is bone from my bone,
and flesh from my flesh!
She will be called ‘woman,’
because she was taken from ‘man.’”
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
naked, but they felt no shame.
The Man and Woman Sin
The serpent was the shrewdest of all the
wild animals the Lord God had made. One
day he asked the woman, “Did God really say
you must not eat the fruit from any of the
trees in the garden?”
2 “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees
in the garden,” the woman replied. 3“It’s only
the fruit from the tree in the middle of the
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