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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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"><title>Genesis 2 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="../topmenuchap/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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="par"><span class="v0_2_1"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.1" class="v0_2_1">1</span>And so the whole universe was completed. </span><span class="v0_2_2"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.2" class="v0_2_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.2.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> <a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.2.2!x.2" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working. </span><span class="v0_2_3"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.3" class="v0_2_3">3</span>He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.2.3!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and stopped working. </span><span class="v0_2_4"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.4" class="v0_2_4">4</span>And that is how the universe was created.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Garden of Eden</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_2_4">When the <span class="nd">Lord</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.2.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> God made the universe, </span><span class="v0_2_5"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.5" class="v0_2_5">5</span>there were no plants on the earth and no seeds had sprouted, because he had not sent any rain, and there was no one to cultivate the land; </span><span class="v0_2_6"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.6" class="v0_2_6">6</span>but water would come up from beneath the surface and water the ground.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_2_7"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.7" class="v0_2_7">7</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.2.7!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God took some soil from the ground and formed a man<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.2.7!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_2_8"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.8" class="v0_2_8">8</span>Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God planted a garden in Eden, in the East, and there he put the man he had formed. </span><span class="v0_2_9"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.9" class="v0_2_9">9</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.2.9!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> He made all kinds of beautiful trees grow there and produce good fruit. In the middle of the garden stood the tree that gives life and the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is bad.<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.2.9!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_2_10"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.10" class="v0_2_10">10</span>A stream flowed in Eden and watered the garden; beyond Eden it divided into four rivers. </span><span class="v0_2_11"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.11" class="v0_2_11">11</span>The first river is the Pishon; it flows around the country of Havilah. ( </span><span class="v0_2_12"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.12" class="v0_2_12">12</span>Pure gold is found there and also rare perfume and precious stones.) </span><span class="v0_2_13"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.13" class="v0_2_13">13</span>The second river is the Gihon; it flows around the country of Cush.<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.2.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v0_2_14"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.14" class="v0_2_14">14</span>The third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria, and the fourth river is the Euphrates.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_2_15"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.15" class="v0_2_15">15</span>Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and guard it. </span><span class="v0_2_16"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.16" class="v0_2_16">16</span>He told him, “You may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden, </span><span class="v0_2_17"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.17" class="v0_2_17">17</span>except the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is bad.<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.2.17!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> You must not eat the fruit of that tree; if you do, you will die the same day.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_2_18"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.18" class="v0_2_18">18</span>Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God said, “It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him.” </span><span class="v0_2_19"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.19" class="v0_2_19">19</span>So he took some soil from the ground and formed all the animals and all the birds. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and that is how they all got their names. </span><span class="v0_2_20"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.20" class="v0_2_20">20</span>So the man named all the birds and all the animals; but not one of them was a suitable companion to help him.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_2_21"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.21" class="v0_2_21">21</span>Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God made the man fall into a deep sleep, and while he was sleeping, he took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the flesh. </span><span class="v0_2_22"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.22" class="v0_2_22">22</span>He formed a woman out of the rib and brought her to him. </span><span class="v0_2_23"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.23" class="v0_2_23">23</span>Then the man said,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v0_2_23">“At last, here is one of my own kind—</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v0_2_23">Bone taken from my bone, and flesh from my flesh.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v0_2_23">‘Woman’ is her name because she was taken out of man.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.2.23!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="m"><span class="v0_2_24"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.24" class="v0_2_24">24</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.2.24!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife, and they become one.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_2_25"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.2.25" class="v0_2_25">25</span>The man and the woman were both naked, but they were not embarrassed.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.3: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">by that day he had completed his creation; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">on that day he completed his creation.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.4: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">the <char style="nd">Lord</char>: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Where the Hebrew text has Yahweh, traditionally transliterated as Jehovah, this translation employs <char style="nd">Lord</char> with capital letters, following a usage which is widespread in English versions.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.7: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">ground … man: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew words for “man” and “ground” have similar sounds.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.9: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">knowledge of what is good and what is bad; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">knowledge of everything.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.13: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Cush (of Mesopotamia); </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Ethiopia.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.17: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">knowledge of what is good and what is bad; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">knowledge of everything.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">2.23: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Woman … man: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew words for “woman” and “man” have rather similar sounds.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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