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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" /><title>Genesis 2 ESV</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="../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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/genesis/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Seventh Day, God Rests</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.</p> <p class="heading">The Creation of Man and Woman</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">These are the generations</span><br /><span class="ln-group">of the heavens and the earth when they were created,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">in the day that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God made the earth and the heavens.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When no bush of the field<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or open country">a</a></sup></span> was yet in the land<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or earth; also verse 6">b</a></sup></span> and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and a mist<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or spring">c</a></sup></span> was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And out of the ground the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or when you eat">d</a></sup></span> of it you shall surely die.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or corresponding to; also verse 20">e</a></sup></span> him.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Now out of the ground the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God had formed<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or And out of the ground the LORD God formed">f</a></sup></span> every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens 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 class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or the man">g</a></sup></span> there was not found a helper fit for him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And the rib that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God had taken from the man he made<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew built">h</a></sup></span> into a woman and brought her to the man. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then the man said,</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“This at last is bone of my bones</span><br /><span class="indent">and flesh of my flesh;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">she shall be called Woman,</span><br /><span class="indent">because she was taken out of Man.”<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew words for woman (ishshah) and man (ish) sound alike">i</a></sup></span></span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Or <i>open country</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Or <i>earth</i>; also verse 6<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Or <i>spring</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> Or <i>when you eat</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> Or <i>corresponding to</i>; also verse 20<br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> Or <i>And out of the ground the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God formed</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> Or <i>the man</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> Hebrew <i>built</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">i</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> The Hebrew words for <i class="catch-word">woman</i> (<i language="Hebrew">ishshah</i>) and <i class="catch-word">man</i> (<i language="Hebrew">ish</i>) sound alike<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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