Genesis 2
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Thus the heavens and the earth, and a all the host of them, were finished.
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b And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
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Then God c blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
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d This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
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before any e plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not f caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man g to till the ground;
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but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.
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And the LORD God formed man of the h dust of the ground, and i breathed into his j nostrils the breath of life; and k man became a living being.
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The LORD God planted l a garden m eastward in n Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.
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And out of the ground the LORD God made o every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. p The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and q evil.
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Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads.
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The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts r the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
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And the gold of that land is good. s Bdellium and the onyx stone are there.
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The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.
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The name of the third river is t Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
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Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
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And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
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"but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil u you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it v you shall surely w die."
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And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; x I will make him a helper comparable to him."
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y Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and z brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.
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So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.
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And the LORD God caused a a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
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Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, b and He c brought her to the man.
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And Adam said:
This is now d bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Because she was e taken out of Man."
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f Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and g be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
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h And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not i ashamed.
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Psalms 33:6
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.
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Exodus 20:9 - 11
Six days you shall labor and do all your work.
Exodus 31:17
'It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.'"
Hebrews 4:4
For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works".
Hebrews 4:10
For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
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Isaiah 58:13
If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, From doing your pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy day of the LORD honorable, And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, Nor finding your own pleasure, Nor speaking your own words.
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Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Psalms 90:1
Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.
Psalms 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
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Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
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Genesis 7:4
"For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made."
Job 5:10
He gives rain on the earth, And sends waters on the fields.
Job 38:26 - 28
To cause it to rain on a land where there is no one, A wilderness in which there is no man.
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Genesis 3:23
Therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.
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Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.
Genesis 3:23
Therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.
Psalms 103:14
For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.
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Job 33:4
The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
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Genesis 7:22
All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died.
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1 Corinthians 15:45
And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
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Isaiah 51:3
For the LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
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Genesis 3:23
Therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.
Genesis 3:24
So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
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Genesis 4:16
Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.
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Ezekiel 31:8
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; The fir trees were not like its boughs, And the chestnut trees were not like its branches; No tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.
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Genesis 3:22
Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever" -
Revelation 2:7
"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God."'
Revelation 22:2
In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Revelation 22:14
Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.
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Deuteronomy 1:39
Moreover your little ones and your children, who you say will be victims, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.
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Genesis 25:18
(They dwelt from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt as you go toward Assyria.) He died in the presence of all his brethren.
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Numbers 11:7
Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.
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Daniel 10:4
Now on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, that is, the Tigris.
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Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?
Genesis 3:3
"but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die."'
Genesis 3:11
And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?
Genesis 3:17
Then to Adam He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it': Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.
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Genesis 3:3
"but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die."'
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned -
1 Corinthians 15:21
For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.
1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.
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1 Corinthians 11:8
For man is not from woman, but woman from man.
1 Corinthians 11:9
Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.
1 Timothy 2:13
For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
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Genesis 1:20
Then God said, "Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.
Genesis 1:24
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind"; and it was so.
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Psalms 8:6
You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet.
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Genesis 15:12
Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him.
1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the jug of water by Saul's head, and they got away; and no man saw or knew it or awoke. For they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.
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Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
1 Timothy 2:13
For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
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Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
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Genesis 29:14
And Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." And he stayed with him for a month.
Ephesians 5:28 - 30
So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
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1 Corinthians 11:8
For man is not from woman, but woman from man.
1 Corinthians 11:9
Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.
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Matthew 19:5
And said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh' ?
Ephesians 5:31
"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
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Mark 10:6 - 8
"But from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female.'
1 Corinthians 6:16
Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For "the two," He says, "shall become one flesh.
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Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
Genesis 3:10
So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.
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Isaiah 47:3
Your nakedness shall be uncovered, Yes, your shame will be seen; I will take vengeance, And I will not arbitrate with a man.
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