Genesis 2:1-8

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

Adam and Eve

4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,
6 but streams[b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
7 Then the LORD God formed a man[c] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.

Cross References 18

  • 1. Deuteronomy 4:19; Deuteronomy 17:3; 2 Kings 17:16; 2 Kings 21:3; Psalms 104:2; Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 45:12; Isaiah 48:13; Isaiah 51:13
  • 2. Deuteronomy 5:14
  • 3. ver 2-3; Exodus 20:11; Exodus 31:17; Exodus 34:21; John 5:17; Hebrews 4:4*
  • 4. Exodus 16:23; Exodus 20:10; Exodus 23:12; Exodus 31:15; Exodus 35:2; Leviticus 23:3; Nehemiah 9:14; Isaiah 58:13; Jeremiah 17:22
  • 5. Psalms 95:11; Hebrews 4:1-11
  • 6. S Genesis 1:1
  • 7. Genesis 5:1; Genesis 6:9; Genesis 10:1; Genesis 11:10,27; Genesis 25:12,19; Genesis 36:1,9; Genesis 37:2
  • 8. Genesis 1:1; Job 38:8-11
  • 9. Genesis 1:11
  • 10. Job 38:28; Psalms 65:9-10; Jeremiah 10:13
  • 11. Isaiah 29:16; Isaiah 43:1,21; Isaiah 44:2
  • 12. S Genesis 1:27
  • 13. Genesis 3:19; Genesis 18:27; Job 4:19; Job 10:9; Job 17:16; Job 34:15; Psalms 90:3; Ecclesiastes 3:20; Ecclesiastes 12:7
  • 14. Genesis 3:23; Genesis 4:2; Psalms 103:14; Jeremiah 18:6; 1 Corinthians 15:47
  • 15. S Genesis 1:2; Job 27:3; Job 33:4; Isaiah 2:22
  • 16. S Genesis 1:30; Isaiah 42:5; Acts 17:25
  • 17. Job 12:10; Job 32:8; Job 33:4; Job 34:14; Psalms 104:29; Isaiah 57:16; Ezekiel 37:5; 1 Corinthians 15:45*
  • 18. ver 10,15; Genesis 3:23,24; Genesis 4:16; Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 51:3; Ezekiel 28:13; Ezekiel 31:9,16; Ezekiel 36:35; Joel 2:3

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Or "land" ; also in verse 6
  • [b]. Or "mist"
  • [c]. The Hebrew for "man (adam)" sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for "ground (adamah)" ; it is also the name "Adam" (see verse 20).
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