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            <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Seventh Day</span></div><div class="r"><span class="heading">(</span><span class="heading">Exodus 16:22&#8211;30</span><span class="heading">; </span><span class="heading">Hebrews 4:1&#8211;11</span><span class="heading">)</span></div><div class="m"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:2 </span><span class="ft">Cited in Hebrews 4:4</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Man and Woman in the Garden</span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:4 </span><span class="ft"><span class="nd">Lord</span> or GOD, with capital letters, represents the proper name of the God of Israel and the one true God, transliterated from the Hebrew as YHWH; here and throughout the Scriptures.</span></span></span><span class="content"> God made them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But springs </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:6 </span><span class="ft">Or mist</span></span></span><span class="content"> welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7 </span><span class="ft">Or a living soul; cited in 1 Corinthians 15:45</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Out of the ground the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The name of the second river is Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it runs along the east side of Assyria.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.2.14"><span class="content">And the fourth river is the Euphrates.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God commanded him, &#8220;You may eat freely from every tree of the garden, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> God also said, &#8220;It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And out of the ground the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:20 </span><span class="ft">Or the man, as in verses 19 and 21</span></span></span><span class="content"> no suitable helper was found.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man&#8217;s ribs </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:21 </span><span class="ft">Or took part of the man&#8217;s side; similarly in verse 22</span></span></span><span class="content"> and closed up the area with flesh. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And from the rib that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And the man said:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"><span class="content">&#8220;This is now bone of my bones</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"><span class="content">and flesh of my flesh;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"><span class="content">she shall be called &#8216;woman,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"><span class="content">for out of man she was taken.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:24 </span><span class="ft">LXX and the two will become one flesh; cited in Matthew 19:5, Mark 10:7&#8211;8, 1 Corinthians 6:16, and Ephesians 5:31</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.2.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.</span></span></div>
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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.

Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.


This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.

Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed. Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:

The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.

The name of the second river is Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.

The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it runs along the east side of Assyria.

And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.

So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh. And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him. And the man said:

“This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
for out of man she was taken.”

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

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