Genesis 2

CHAPTER 2

¹Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all ^atheir hosts.

²And ¹on ^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.

³Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He rested from all His work which God had created ¹in making it.

The Generations of the Heavens and the Earth

^4aThese are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in ^bthe day that ¹Yahweh God made earth and heaven.

^5aNow no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet grown, ^bfor Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to ¹cultivate the ground.

⁶But a ¹stream would rise from the earth and water the whole ²surface of the ground.

⁷Then Yahweh God formed man of ^adust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and so the ^bman became a living ¹being.

⁸And Yahweh God planted a ^agarden in Eden, toward the east; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.

⁹And out of the ground Yahweh God caused to grow ^aevery tree that is ^bdesirable in appearance and good for food; ^cthe tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰Now a ^ariver went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four ¹rivers.

¹¹The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that ¹went around the whole land of ^aHavilah, where there is gold.

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

¹³And the name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that ¹went around the whole land of Cush.

¹⁴And the name of the third river is ^1aTigris; it is the one that went east of ²Asshur. And the fourth river is the ^3bEuphrates.

¹⁵Then Yahweh God took the man and ¹set him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.

¹⁶And Yahweh God ^acommanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may surely eat;

¹⁷but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat from it; for in the day that you eat from it ^ayou will surely die.”

¹⁸Then Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; ^aI will make him a helper ¹suitable for him.”

^19aAnd out of the ground Yahweh God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the ¹sky, and He ^bbrought each to the man to see what he would call it; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.

²⁰And 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.

²¹So Yahweh 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.

²²And Yahweh God ¹fashioned ^athe rib, which He had taken from the man, into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

²³Then the man said,

“^aThis one finally is bone of my bones,

And flesh of my flesh;

This one shall be called ¹Woman,

Because this one was taken out of ²Man.”

^24aTherefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

^25aAnd the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.