2:1 And so the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their heavenly ①lights.
▷ ①Lit host i.e., sun, stars, etc.
2:2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He rested from all His work which God had created ①and made.
▷ ①Lit to make
2:4 ①This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.
▷ ①Lit These are the generations
2:5 Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to ①cultivate the ground.
▷ ①Lit work, serve
2:6 But a ①mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole ②surface of the ground.
▷ ①Or flow ②Lit face of
2:7 Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living ①person.
▷ ①Or soul
2:8 The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.
2:9 Out of the ground the LORD God caused every tree to grow that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
2:10 Now a river ①flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four ②rivers.
▷ ①Lit was going out ②Lit heads
2:11 The name of the first is Pishon; it ①flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
▷ ①Lit surrounds
2:12 The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there as well.
2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it ①flows around the whole land of Cush.
▷ ①Lit is the one surrounding
2:14 The name of the third river is ①Tigris; it ②flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the ③Euphrates.
▷ ①Heb Hiddekel ②Lit is the one going ③Heb Perath
2:15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and tend it.
2:16 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat;
2:17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not ①eat, for on the day that you eat from it you will certainly die.”
▷ ①Lit eat from it
2:18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper ①suitable for him.”
▷ ①Lit corresponding to
2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
2:20 The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field, but for ①Adam there was not found a helper ②suitable for him.
▷ ①Or man ②Lit corresponding to
2:21 So the LORD God caused a 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.
2:22 And the LORD God ①fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.
▷ ①Lit built
2:23 Then the man said,
“At last this is bone of my bones,
And flesh of my flesh;
①She shall be called ②‘woman,’
Because ③she was taken out of ④man.”
▷ ①Lit This one ②Heb ishshah ③Lit This one ④Heb ish
2:24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
2:25 And the man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.