Genesis 2
KJV Easy Read Bible

1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

2And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.   HEB 4:10; JOHN 5:17

3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.

4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

5And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

6But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.   surface

7And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.   1 COR 15:45; 1 TIM 2:13 | from

Life in God’s Garden

8And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.

9And out of the ground made the Lord God 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.   REV 2:7; REV 22:2

10And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became into four heads.   rivers

11The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasses the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;   surrounds

12And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

13And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasses the whole land of Ethiopia.   Cush

14And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goes toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.   Tigris

15And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.   Adam; cultivate

16And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:

17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die.

18And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.   1 COR 11:9 | helper

19And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

20And 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 a help meet for him.

21And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;   1 COR 11:8 | in place of it

22And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her to the man.

23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.   Isha (Heb.); Ish (Heb.)

24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.   MARK 10:8; 1 COR 6:16; EPH 5:31; MATT 19:5

25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.





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