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| | Gen 2:1 | So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed.
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| | Gen 2:2 | On the seventh day, having finished his task, God rested from all his work.
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| | 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.
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| | 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,
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| | 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.
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| | Gen 2:6 | But water came up out of the ground and watered all the land.
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| | 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.
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| | Gen 2:8 | Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the man he had created.
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| | 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.
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| | Gen 2:10 | A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into four branches.
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| | Gen 2:11 | One of these branches is the Pishon, which flows around the entire land of Havilah, where gold is found.
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| | Gen 2:12 | The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there.
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| | Gen 2:13 | The second branch is the Gihon, which flows around the entire land of Cush.
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| | Gen 2:14 | The third branch is the Tigris, which flows to the east of Asshur. The fourth branch is the Euphrates.
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| | Gen 2:15 | The LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and care for it.
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| | Gen 2:16 | But the LORD God gave him this warning: "You may freely eat any fruit in the garden
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| | 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."
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| | 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."
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| | Gen 2:19 | So the LORD God formed from the soil every kind of animal and bird. He brought them to Adam to see what he would call them, and Adam chose a name for each one.
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| | Gen 2:20 | He gave names to all the livestock, birds, and wild animals. But still there was no companion suitable for him.
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| | Gen 2:21 | So the LORD God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep. He took one of Adam's ribs and closed up the place from which he had taken it.
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| | Gen 2:22 | Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib and brought her to Adam.
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| | 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."
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| | 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.
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| | Gen 2:25 | Now, although Adam and his wife were both naked, neither of them felt any shame.
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