Genesis Chapter 2

^1-2 The seventh day God had finished creating the earth and sky and everything in them, and he rested from his work. ³ He blessed the seventh day and set it aside because he’d finished working that day.                            

Gen 1:24-2:3

The Creation of Mankind

            ⁴ This is what Yahveh God did when he created the earth and sky. ⁵ Shrubs and plants hadn’t sprouted yet, because he^Y hadn’t made it rain and there wasn’t anybody to cultivate the ground. ⁶ A mist was coming up from the ground to water it. ⁷ Then he^Y formed a man out of the “ground,” breathed into him, and made him alive. The man became a living, breathing being.

⁸ Yahveh God planted an orchard in the East in Eden and put the man there. ⁹ From the ground he^Y made trees grow that looked nice and were good for producing food. In the orchard he planted the tree of life and the tree for knowing good and bad. ¹⁰ A river ran out of Eden to water the orchard. Then it separated into four rivers: ^11-12 the Pishon, that flows around the land of Havilah, where there’s fine gold, bdellium, and onyx; ¹³ the Gihon, that flows around Cush; ¹⁴ the Tigris, that flows east of Assyria; and the Euphrates.

Gen 2:4-14

            ¹⁵ Yahveh God put the man in the orchard to trim it and take care of it. ¹⁶ He^YG told him,

“You’re free to eat the fruit from any tree in the orchard ¹⁷ except the one that gives the knowledge of good and bad. If you eat its fruit, you’ll die.”

¹⁸ Yahveh God said, “It’s not good for the man to be by himself. I’ll make him a helper that corresponds to him.” ¹⁹ Out of the ground he’d^Y formed every land animal and bird. He brought them to the man to see what he’d call them. Whatever he called them became their name. ²⁰ He named the cattle, birds, and wild animals; but he didn’t find a helper that corresponded to him.

Gen 2:15-20

            ²¹ So Yahveh God put him into a deep sleep, took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in place of it. ²² He^Y formed a woman from the rib and brought her to him. ²³ The man said,

                        “This is bone from my bones,

                                    flesh from my flesh.

                        She’ll be called ‘woman,’

                                    because she was taken out of ‘man.’”

²⁴ That’s why a man is to leave his parents and unite with his wife, and they’ll become one physical identity. ²⁵ The man and his wife were both naked, but they weren’t self-conscious.

Gen 2:21-25