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Genesis - Chapter 2

	Gen 2:1	So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed.
	Gen 2:2	On the seventh day, having finished his task, God rested from all his work.
	Gen 2:3	And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from his work of creation.
	Gen 2:4	This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth. When the LORD God made the heavens and the earth,
	Gen 2:5	there were no plants or grain growing on the earth, for the LORD God had not sent any rain. And no one was there to cultivate the soil.
	Gen 2:6	But water came up out of the ground and watered all the land.
	Gen 2:7	And the LORD God formed a man's body from the dust of the ground and breathed into it the breath of life. And the man became a living person.
	Gen 2:8	Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the man he had created.
	Gen 2:9	And the LORD God planted all sorts of trees in the garden--beautiful trees that produced delicious fruit. At the center of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
	Gen 2:10	A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into four branches.
	Gen 2:11	One of these branches is the Pishon, which flows around the entire land of Havilah, where gold is found.
	Gen 2:12	The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there.
	Gen 2:13	The second branch is the Gihon, which flows around the entire land of Cush.
	Gen 2:14	The third branch is the Tigris, which flows to the east of Asshur. The fourth branch is the Euphrates.
	Gen 2:15	The LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and care for it.
	Gen 2:16	But the LORD God gave him this warning: "You may freely eat any fruit in the garden
	Gen 2:17	except fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat of its fruit, you will surely die."
	Gen 2:18	And the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion who will help him."
	Gen 2:19	So the LORD God formed from the soil every kind of animal and bird. He brought them to Adam [fn] to see what he would call them, and Adam chose a name for each one.
	Gen 2:20	He gave names to all the livestock, birds, and wild animals. But still there was no companion suitable for him.
	Gen 2:21	So the LORD God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep. He took one of Adam's ribs [fn] and closed up the place from which he had taken it.
	Gen 2:22	Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib and brought her to Adam.
	Gen 2:23	"At last!" Adam exclaimed. "She is part of my own flesh and bone! She will be called `woman,' because she was taken out of a man."
	Gen 2:24	This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
	Gen 2:25	Now, although Adam and his wife were both naked, neither of them felt any shame.

NLT Footnotes:

(2:19) Hebrew the man, and so throughout this chapter.
(2:21) Or took a part of Adam's side.

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