Genesis 2:1-9

1 So the heavens and the earth and everything in them[a] were completed.
2 By the seventh[b] day, God completed His work that He had done, and He rested[c] on the seventh day from all His work that He had done.
3 God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it He rested[d] from His work of creation.[e] [f]

Man and Woman in the Garden

4 These are the records[g] of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation at the time[h] that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
5 No shrub of the field had yet [grown] on the land,[i] and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.
6 But water would come out of the ground and water the entire surface of the land.
7 Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
8 The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there He placed the man He had formed.
9 The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the midst of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.[j]

Genesis 2:1-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 2

In this chapter are contained a summary of the works of creation on the six days, and God's resting from his works on the seventh day, and the sanctification of that, Ge 2:1-4 and an account of various things relating to several parts of the creation enlarged on and explained, and of various circumstances omitted in the preceding chapter, which could not so well be taken notice of there; as of a mist arising out of the earth, which watered the herbs and plants before there was any rain to fall upon them, or a man to cultivate them, Ge 2:5,6 and of the matter and manner of man's formation, Ge 2:7 and of the planting of the garden of Eden, and the trees that were in it, and the rivers that watered it, and sprung from it, and the course they steered, the countries they washed, and what those countries abounded with, Ge 2:8-14 of man's being put into it to dress it, and keep it, and of the grant he had to eat of the fruit of any of the trees in it, excepting one, which was forbidden under a penalty of death, Ge 2:15-17 and of all the creatures, beasts and fowls, being brought to him, to give them names, Ge 2:18-20 and of God's providing an help meet for him, and forming Eve out of one of his ribs, and of their marriage together, and the institution of marriage, Ge 2:21-24 and the chapter is concluded with observing the present state and circumstances of our first parents before they fell, Ge 2:25.

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