Genesis 2 - 3

The Seventh Day, God Rests

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and w all the host of them. 2 And x on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

The Creation of Man and Woman

4 y These 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 z bush of the field 1 was yet in the land 2 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 a to work the ground, 6 and a mist 3 was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground - 7 then the Lord God formed the man of b dust from the ground and c breathed into his d nostrils the breath of life, and e the man became a living creature. 8 And the Lord God planted a f garden 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. g The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, h and 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 i Havilah, 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 j Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

15 The Lord God took the man k and 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 l you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat 4 of it you m shall surely die."

18 Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; n I will make him a helper fit for 5 him." 19 o Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed 6 every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and p brought 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 7 there was not found a helper fit for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a q deep 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 8 into a woman and brought her to the man.

23 Then the man said,
"This at last is r bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was s taken out of Man." 9

24 t Therefore 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.

Genesis 3

The Fall

1 Now u the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You 10 shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?" 2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, v 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'" 4 w But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, 11 she took of its fruit x and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, y and he ate. 7 z Then the eyes of both were opened, a and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool 12 of the day, and the man and his wife b hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?" 13 10 And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, c because I was naked, and I hid myself." 11 He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?" 12 The man said, d "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate." 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, e "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

14 The Lord God said to the serpent,
"Because you have done this,
cursed are you above all livestock
and above all beasts of the field;
on your belly you shall go,
and f dust you shall eat
all the days of your life.
 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring 14 and g her offspring;
h he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel."

16 To the woman he said,
"I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing;
i in pain you shall bring forth children.
j Your desire shall be for 15 your husband,
and he shall k rule over you."

17 And to Adam he said,
"Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
l of which I commanded you,
'You shall not eat of it,'
m cursed is the ground because of you;
n in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
 18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
and you shall eat the plants of the field.
 19 By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
o for you are dust,
and p to dust you shall return."

20 The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. 16 21 And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

22 Then the Lord God said, q "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand r and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever - " 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden s to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the t cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:19
    And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
    Psalms 33:6
    By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 20:8 - 11
    Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
    Exodus 31:17
    It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.'
    Deuteronomy 5:12 - 14
    'Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.
    Hebrews 4:4
    For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.
  3. Cross References
    Genesis 1:1
    In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 1:11 - 12
    And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth." And it was so.
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 3:23
    Therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
  6. Cross References
    Genesis 3:19
    By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, ...
    Genesis 3:23
    Therefore the Lord God sent him out from the ga...
    Genesis 18:27
    Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have unde...
    Psalms 103:14
    For he knows our frame; he remembers that we ar...
    Ecclesiastes 12:7
    And the dust returns to the earth as it was, an...
    1 Corinthians 15:47
    The first man was from the earth, a man of dust...
  7. Cross References
    Genesis 7:22
    Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.
    Job 33:4
    The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
    Isaiah 2:22
    Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?
  8. Cross References
    Job 27:3
    As long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils.
  9. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 15:45
    Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
  10. Cross References
    Genesis 2:15
    The Lord God took the man and put him in the ga...
    Genesis 13:10
    And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jor...
    Isaiah 51:3
    For the Lord comforts Zion; he comforts all her...
    Ezekiel 28:13
    You were in Eden, the garden of God; every prec...
    Ezekiel 31:8
    The cedars in the garden of God could not rival...
    Joel 2:3
    Fire devours before them, and behind them a fla...
  11. Cross References
    Genesis 3:22
    Then the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever -
    Revelation 2:7
    He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
    Revelation 22:2
    Through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
    Revelation 22:14
    Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.
  12. Cross References
    Genesis 2:17
    But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
  13. Cross References
    Genesis 10:7
    The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
    Genesis 10:29
    Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
    Genesis 25:18
    They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria. He settled over against all his kinsmen.
    1 Samuel 15:7
    And Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.
  14. Cross References
    Daniel 10:4
    On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river ( that is, the Tigris)
  15. Cross References
    Genesis 2:8
    And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
  16. Cross References
    Genesis 3:1 - 3
    Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?
    Genesis 3:11
    He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?
    Genesis 3:17
    And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life.
  17. Cross References
    Romans 6:23
    For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
    James 1:15
    Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
  18. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 11:9
    Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
    1 Timothy 2:13
    For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
  19. Cross References
    Genesis 1:20
    And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.
    Genesis 1:24
    And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds - livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.
  20. Cross References
    Psalms 8:6
    You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet.
  21. Cross References
    Genesis 15:12
    As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him.
    1 Samuel 26:12
    So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head, and they went away. No man saw it or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.
  22. Cross References
    Genesis 29:14
    And Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh!" And he stayed with him a month.
    Judges 9:2
    "Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, 'Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?' Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh."
    2 Samuel 5:1
    Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, "Behold, we are your bone and flesh.
    2 Samuel 19:13
    And say to Amasa, 'Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.'
    Ephesians 5:28 - 30
    In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
  23. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 11:8
    For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.
  24. Cross References
    Matthew 19:5
    And said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his fath...
    Mark 10:7
    Therefore a man shall leave his father and moth...
    1 Corinthians 6:16
    Or do you not know that he who is joined to a p...
    Ephesians 5:31
    "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mot...
    Psalms 45:10
    Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline you...
    1 Corinthians 7:10 - 11
    To the married I give this charge (not I, but t...
  25. Cross References
    Matthew 10:16
    Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
    2 Corinthians 11:3
    But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
    Revelation 12:9
    And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world - he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
    Revelation 20:2
    And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
  26. Cross References
    Genesis 2:17
    But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
  27. Cross References
    Genesis 3:13
    Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
    John 8:44
    You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
    2 Corinthians 11:3
    But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
  28. Cross References
    1 Timothy 2:14
    And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
  29. Cross References
    Genesis 3:12
    The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.
    Genesis 3:17
    And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life.
    Hosea 6:7
    But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
  30. Cross References
    Genesis 3:5
    For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
  31. Cross References
    Genesis 2:25
    And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
  32. Cross References
    Psalms 139:1 - 12
    O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
    Jeremiah 23:23 - 24
    Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away?
  33. Cross References
    Genesis 3:7
    Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
    Genesis 2:25
    And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
  34. Cross References
    Genesis 2:18
    Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.
    Job 31:33
    If I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my bosom.
  35. Cross References
    Genesis 3:4
    But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.
    2 Corinthians 11:3
    But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
    1 Timothy 2:14
    And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
  36. Cross References
    Isaiah 65:25
    The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain," says the Lord.
    Micah 7:17
    They shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall be in fear of you.
  37. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:14
    Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign...
    Micah 5:3
    Therefore he shall give them up until the time ...
    Matthew 1:23
    Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a so...
    Matthew 1:25
    But knew her not until she had given birth to a...
    Luke 1:34 - 35
    And Mary said to the angel, "How will this be, ...
    Galatians 4:4
    But when the fullness of time had come, God sen...
    1 Timothy 2:15
    Yet she will be saved through childbearing - if...
  38. Cross References
    Romans 16:20
    The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
    Hebrews 2:14
    Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil.
    Revelation 20:1 - 3
    Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.
    Revelation 20:10
    And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
  39. Cross References
    John 16:21
    When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
  40. Cross References
    Genesis 4:7
    If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.
    Song of Solomon 7:10
    I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.
  41. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 11:3
    But I want you to understand that the head of e...
    1 Corinthians 14:34
    The women should keep silent in the churches. F...
    Ephesians 5:22 - 24
    Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the L...
    Colossians 3:18
    Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting i...
    1 Timothy 2:11 - 12
    Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.
    Titus 2:5
    To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, k...
    1 Peter 3:1
    Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husband...
    1 Peter 3:5 - 6
    For this is how the holy women who hoped in God...
  42. Cross References
    Genesis 2:17
    But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
  43. Cross References
    Genesis 5:29
    And called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.
    Romans 8:20 - 22
    For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
  44. Cross References
    Ecclesiastes 2:22 - 23
    What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?
  45. Cross References
    Genesis 2:7
    Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
    Psalms 103:14
    For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
  46. Cross References
    Job 34:15
    All flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.
    Psalms 104:29
    When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
    Ecclesiastes 3:20
    All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.
    Ecclesiastes 12:7
    And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
    Romans 5:12
    Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned -
  47. Cross References
    Genesis 3:5
    For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
  48. Cross References
    Genesis 2:9
    And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
  49. Cross References
    Genesis 2:5
    When no bush of the field was yet in the land 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 to work the ground.
  50. Cross References
    Psalms 18:10
    He rode on a cherub and flew; he came swiftly on the wings of the wind.
    Psalms 104:4
    He makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire.
    Hebrews 1:7
    Of the angels he says, "He makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire.
    Exodus 25:18 - 22
    And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat.
    Ezekiel 28:11 - 16
    Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me:
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