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Genesis 2:4-25

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The Creation of Man and Woman

4 1These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
5 When no 2bush of the field[a] was yet in the land[b] and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up--for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man 3to work the ground,
6 and a mist[c] was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground--
7 then the LORD God formed the man of 4dust from the ground and 5breathed into his 6nostrils the breath of life, and 7the man became a living creature.
8 And the LORD God planted a 8garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. 9The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, 10and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers.
11 The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of 11Havilah, where there is gold.
12 And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.
13 The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush.
14 And the name of the third river is the 12Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 The LORD God took the man 13and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil 14you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat[d] of it you 15shall surely die."
18 Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; 16I will make him a helper fit for[e] him."
19 17Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed[f] every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and 18brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam[g] there was not found a helper fit for him.
21 So the LORD God caused a 19deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
22 And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made[h] into a woman and brought her to the man.
23 Then the man said, "This at last is 20bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was 21taken out of Man."[i]
24 22Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
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Genesis 2:4-25 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 22

  • 1. Genesis 1:1
  • 2. [Genesis 1:11, 12]
  • 3. Genesis 3:23
  • 4. Genesis 3:19, 23; Genesis 18:27; Psalms 103:14; Ecclesiastes 12:7; 1 Corinthians 15:47
  • 5. Genesis 7:22; Job 33:4; Isaiah 2:22
  • 6. Job 27:3
  • 7. Cited 1 Corinthians 15:45
  • 8. ver. 15; Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 51:3; Ezekiel 28:13; Ezekiel 31:8; Joel 2:3
  • 9. Genesis 3:22; Revelation 2:7; Revelation 22:2, 14
  • 10. ver. 17
  • 11. Genesis 10:7, 29; Genesis 25:18; 1 Samuel 15:7
  • 12. Daniel 10:4
  • 13. ver. 8
  • 14. Genesis 3:1-3, 11, 17
  • 15. Romans 6:23; James 1:15
  • 16. 1 Corinthians 11:9; 1 Timothy 2:13
  • 17. Genesis 1:20, 24
  • 18. Psalms 8:6
  • 19. Genesis 15:12; 1 Samuel 26:12
  • 20. Genesis 29:14; Judges 9:2; 2 Samuel 5:1; 2 Samuel 19:13; [Ephesians 5:28-30]
  • 21. 1 Corinthians 11:8
  • 22. Cited Matthew 19:5; Mark 10:7; 1 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 5:31; [Psalms 45:10; 1 Corinthians 7:10, 11]

Footnotes 9

  • [a]. Or open country
  • [b]. Or earth; also verse 6
  • [c]. Or spring
  • [d]. Or when you eat
  • [e]. Or corresponding to; also verse 20
  • [f]. Or And out of the ground the Lord God formed
  • [g]. Or the man
  • [h]. Hebrew built
  • [i]. The Hebrew words for woman (ishshah) and man (ish) sound alike
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