Genesis 2 - NKJV Bible Online

Genesis 2

Thus the heavens and the earth, and ^aall the host of them, were finished. 2 ^aAnd 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. 3 Then God ^ablessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
4 ^aThis is the ¹history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 before any ^aplant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the Lord God had not ^bcaused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man ^cto till the ground; 6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And the Lord God formed man of the ^adust of the ground, and ^bbreathed into his ^cnostrils the breath of life; and ^dman became a living being.

Life in God’s Garden

8 The Lord God planted ^aa garden ^beastward in ^cEden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made ^aevery tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. ^bThe tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and ^cevil.
10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. 11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts ^athe whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good. ^aBdellium and the onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is ^aHiddekel;¹ it is the one which goes toward the east of ²Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 Then the Lord God took ¹the man and put him in the garden of Eden to ²tend and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ^ayou shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it ^byou¹ shall surely ^cdie.”
18 And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; ^aI will make him a helper comparable to him.” 19 ^aOut of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and ^bbrought them to ¹Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 20 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.
21 And the Lord God caused a ^adeep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He ¹made into a woman, ^aand He ^bbrought her to the man.
23 And Adam said:

“This is now ^abone of my bones

And flesh of my flesh;

She shall be called ¹Woman,

Because she was ^btaken out of ²Man.”

24 ^aTherefore a man shall leave his father and mother and ^bbe¹ joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
25 ^aAnd they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ^bashamed.

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