Genesis 2

¹⁷It is a sign between Me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”

¹¹For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

⁶By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.

¹In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

¹⁸For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the Lord, and there is no other.

¹⁵And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord: “O Lord, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

⁴For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this manner: “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works.”

¹⁷It is a sign between Me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”

¹⁴but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.

⁸Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

⁹Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

¹²For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.

¹⁷But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”

³For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the Lord.

²⁷Then Jesus declared, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

¹²I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

¹³“Tell the Israelites, ‘Surely you must keep My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

¹⁴Keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it must surely be put to death. Whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from among his people.

⁵⁶Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.

²¹Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

¹This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.

⁸“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come—the Almighty.

³The Lord is a warrior, the Lord is His name.

⁴And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.

¹This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).

¹In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

²³Therefore the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

¹⁰He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.

⁷For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.

²Later she gave birth to Cain’s brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a tiller of the soil.

²⁶to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,

²⁷to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

¹²When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

⁷before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

⁴⁵So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

⁴The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

⁸But now, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

²⁵Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

⁴⁷The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.

²⁴So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.

¹³You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.

¹⁰And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

¹²Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?

¹⁶So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

⁸The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.

⁹I made it beautiful with its many branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God.’

²²Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”

⁷He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.

¹⁴Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.

²down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

¹²Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”

³⁰The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.

¹Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

⁴There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.

¹⁸Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.

²⁹Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

⁷Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.

⁷The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

¹³You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.

¹⁶It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.

²⁰and in the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. Mount these stones in gold filigree settings.

¹³and the fourth row had a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. These stones were mounted in gold filigree settings.

⁷Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.

⁶The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

¹¹On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

⁴On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river, the Tigris,

¹⁸On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

²²The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.

⁷Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.

²⁴Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.

¹¹From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

²For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.

⁸And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

²⁸He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.

²And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.

²²But Samuel declared: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.

⁴For every creation of God is good, and nothing that is received with thanksgiving should be rejected,

¹⁷Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.

⁹Out 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.

¹Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”

²The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,

²³For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁵Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

¹⁹By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

⁵⁶The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

¹⁰All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

²²For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

⁹Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor.

¹⁰For if one falls down, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to help him up!

²²He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

⁷Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as a delicate vessel, and with honor as fellow heirs of the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

⁷A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.

⁸For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.

¹One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a resting place for you, that it may be well with you?

¹¹A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.

¹²I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; she is to remain quiet.

⁴what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

⁵You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.

²⁸God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

²⁰And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

²¹So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

²The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.

²⁰Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.

²²And from the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him.

²³And 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.”

¹⁸The Lord God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

¹²As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.

¹³In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

¹⁵In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,

¹²So David took the spear and water jug by Saul’s head, and they departed. No one saw them or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up; they all remained asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen on them.

¹⁸While he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me, helped me to my feet,

¹⁵Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.

⁸For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.

⁹Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

¹³For Adam was formed first, and then Eve.

⁴Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

²²He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

¹⁴Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

¹A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the Lord protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.

²⁸In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

²⁹Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.

⁸For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.

⁹Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

¹Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

²“Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”

¹⁴Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

¹³And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from now on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

³Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

⁴Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’

²⁸In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

²⁹Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.

⁶However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

⁷‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,

²For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

¹Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives

²when they see your pure and reverent demeanor.

²But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

³The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

⁷And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.

¹⁰“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

¹¹“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the Lord God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

¹¹It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

¹³O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the Lord, the fountain of living water.

²⁶You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the Lord your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to shame.

⁴Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated. For you will forget the shame of your youth and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.