New American Standard Bible 1995

Genesis 2:1-9

1Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all 1their hosts. 2By 2the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and 3He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created 4and made.

4 5 6This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in 7the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven. 5 8Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, 9for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to 10cultivate the ground. 6But a 11mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole 12surface of the ground. 7Then the Lord God formed man of 13dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and 14man became a living 15being. 8The Lord God planted a 16garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. 9Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow 17every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; 18the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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Notes

1. Genesis 2:1 Deut 4:19; 17:3 ↩
2. Genesis 2:2 Ex 20:8-11; 31:17 ↩
3. Genesis 2:2 Heb 4:4, 10 ↩
4. Genesis 2:3 Lit to make ↩
5. Genesis 2:4 Lit These are the generations ↩
6. Genesis 2:4 Job 38:4-11 ↩
7. Genesis 2:4 Gen 1:3-31 ↩
8. Genesis 2:5 Gen 1:11 ↩
9. Genesis 2:5 Ps 65:9, 10; Jer 10:12, 13 ↩
10. Genesis 2:5 Lit work, serve ↩
11. Genesis 2:6 Or flow ↩
12. Genesis 2:6 Lit face of ↩
13. Genesis 2:7 Gen 3:19 ↩
14. Genesis 2:7 1 Cor 15:45 ↩
15. Genesis 2:7 Lit soul ↩
16. Genesis 2:8 Gen 13:10; Is 51:3; Ezek 28:13 ↩
17. Genesis 2:9 Ezek 47:12 ↩
18. Genesis 2:9 Gen 3:22; Rev 2:7; 22:2, 14 ↩

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