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and <B><font color="#800080">He</font></B> rested on the seventh day from all <B><font color="#800080">His</font></B> work which <B><font color="#800080">He</font></B> had made. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, because that in it <B><font color="#800080">He</font></B> had rested from all <B><font color="#800080">His</font></B> work which <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> created and made.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>These <I>are</I> the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the <B><font color="#800080">LORD</font></B> <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> made the earth and the heavens, <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for the <B><font color="#800080">LORD</font></B> <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and <I>there was</I> not a man to till the ground. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the <B><font color="#800080">LORD</font></B> <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> formed man <I>of</I> the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the <B><font color="#800080">LORD</font></B> <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there <B><font color="#800080">He</font></B> put the man whom <B><font color="#800080">He</font></B> had formed. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And out of the ground made the <B><font color="#800080">LORD</font></B> <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The name of the first <I>is</I> Pishon; that <I>is</I> it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where <I>there is</I> gold; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the gold of that land <I>is</I> good: there <I>is</I> bdellium and the onyx stone. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the name of the second river <I>is</I> Gihon; the same <I>is</I> it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And the name of the third river <I>is</I> Hiddekel; that <I>is</I> it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river <I>is</I> Euphrates. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the <B><font color="#800080">LORD</font></B> <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to <I>till</I> {dress} it and to keep it. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the <B><font color="#800080">LORD</font></B> <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the <B><font color="#800080">LORD</font></B> <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> said, <I>It is</I> not good that the man should be alone; <B><font color="#800080">I</font></B> will make him an help <I>fit</I> {meet} for him. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And out of the ground the <B><font color="#800080">LORD</font></B> <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought <I>them</I> unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that <I>was</I> the name thereof. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the <B><font color="#800080">LORD</font></B> <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and <B><font color="#800080">He</font></B> took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the rib, which the <B><font color="#800080">LORD</font></B> <B><font color="#800080">God</font></B> had taken from man, made <B><font color="#800080">He</font></B> a woman, and brought her unto the man. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Adam said, This <I>is</I> now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/genesis/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="/purple/">King James Bible: Purple Letter Edition</a><br>© 2023 by Jim Musser. 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