Genesis – Story of creation 3 Genesis 2:1-15 Story of Adam and Eve

Marcus Ampe

 

 

Gen 2:1-15 NHEBJE  The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array.  (2)  On the sixth day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
(3)  God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

(4)  This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made the earth and the heavens.

(5)  No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,  (6)  but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

(7)  Jehovah God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

(8)  Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.  (9)  Out of the ground Jehovah God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

(10)  A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.  (11)  The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;  (12)  and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.  (13)  The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.  (14)  The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

(15)  Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

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