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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Genesis 2 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/genesis/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NRSVCE</a> > Genesis 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/1.htm" title="Genesis 1">◄</a> Genesis 2 <a href="../genesis/3.htm" title="Genesis 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <p class="chapter-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created.</span></p><h3><span class="text">Another Account of the Creation</span></h3><p><span class="text">In the day that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span><span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-35a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> God made the earth and the heavens, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up—for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>but a stream would rise from the earth, and water the whole face of the ground— </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God formed man from the dust of the ground,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-38b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>And the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Out of the ground the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God made 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 the knowledge of good and evil.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>A river flows out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it divides and becomes four branches. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>and the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Cush. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>The name of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>And the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God commanded the man, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>So out of the ground the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for the man<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-51c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> there was not found a helper as his partner. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>So the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>And the rib that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Then the man said,</span></p><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text">“This at last is bone of my bones</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and flesh of my flesh;</span></span><br /><span class="text">this one shall be called Woman,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-54d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for out of Man<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-54e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> this one was taken.”</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 2:4">Genesis 2:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb YHWH, as in other places where “<span class="small-caps">Lord</span>” is spelled with capital letters (see also Ex 3.14–15 with notes).</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 2:7">Genesis 2:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>formed a man</i> (Heb <i>adam</i>) <i>of dust from the ground</i> (Heb <i>adamah</i>)</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 2:20">Genesis 2:20</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>for Adam</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 2:23">Genesis 2:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>ishshah</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 2:23">Genesis 2:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>ish</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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