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Genesis

The Creation of Man and Woman

Genesis 2:4-25
4These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and the heavens. 5No bush of the field was yet in the land, and no vegetation of the field had yet sprung, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the land, and there was no man to work the ground. 6And a mist went up from the land and watered the whole face of the ground. 7And the LORD God formed the man from dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living soul. 8And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the man whom he had formed. 9And the LORD God caused every tree desirable in appearance and good for food to spring from the land, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10And a river went out from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four branches. 11The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12And the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone. 13And the name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Cush. 14And the name of the third river is Tigris; it is the one that goes east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15And the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 16And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From every tree of the garden you may surely eat." 17But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day you eat from it you shall surely die. 18And the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make for him a helper corresponding to him." 19And the LORD God formed from the land every animal 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 each living soul, that was its name. 20And the man gave names to all the animals and to the birds of the heavens and to every animal of the field, but for the man no helper corresponding to him was found. 21And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his sides and closed up the flesh in its place. 22And the LORD God made the side which he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. 23And the man said, "This at last is bone from my bone and flesh from my flesh; this one shall be called woman, for from man this one was taken." 24Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25And the two of them were naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.
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