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| Chapter 2 | |
| 1 | Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. | 
| 2 | And on the 1seventh day God ended his 
work which he had made; and 
2he rested on the seventh day from all his work 
which he had made.
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| 3 | And 
God 1blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had 
rested from all his work which God created and made.
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| 4 | These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, | 
| 5 | And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. | 
| 6 | But there went up a mist from the earth, and 
1watered the whole face of the ground.
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| 7 | And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and 
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; 
1and man became a living
soul.
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| 8 | And the LORD God 
planted a 1garden 2eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had 
formed.
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| 9 | And out of the 
ground made the LORD God to grow every 1tree that is pleasant to the sight, and
good for food; the 2tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree 
of knowledge of good and evil.
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| 10 | And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. | 
| 11 | The name of the first is Pison: that is it which 
compasseth the whole land of 1Havilah, where there is gold;
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| 12 | And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. | 
| 13 | And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. | 
| 14 | And the name of the third river is 1Hiddekel: that is 
it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is 
Euphrates.
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| 15 | And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. | 
| 16 | And the LORD 
God commanded the man, saying, Of every 1tree of the garden thou mayest freely 
eat:
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| 17 | But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. | 
| 18 | And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. | 
| 19 | And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. | 
| 20 | And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. | 
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And the LORD God caused a 1deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he 
took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
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| 22 | And the rib, which the LORD God had 
taken from man, made he a woman, and 1brought her unto the man.
 
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| 23 | And Adam said, This is now 1bone of my 
bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken
out of Man.
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1Therefore 
shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: 
and they shall be one flesh.
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| 25 | And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. | 

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