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4 genesis 2:4
2:7 ADA M AND E VE
God made the first man
out of dust.
Both animals and people were
created out of the ground with
God’s breath of life.
2:8,10 – 14
The location of Eden
Eden was probably in the country
we know today as Iraq. The location
of the rivers tells us that Eden also
could have been an area through
Egypt and Ethiopia.
2:9
The tree of life
This tree was in the middle of the
Garden of Eden. It had special
fruit. Anyone who ate it would live
forever. God gave Adam and Eve
access to the tree of life because he
wanted them to have eternal life.
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2:17
Good and evil
God warned Adam and Eve not to
eat from the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil. Adam and Eve
already knew right from wrong.
But they hadn’t seen evil. God was
testing if they would obey.
2:18,20
Adam needed a helper.
All of God’s other creatures had
been created in pairs, but Adam was
alone. Eve would provide friendship
and help for Adam, and together
they would carry on the human race.
4 T his is the account of the heavens and the earth when
they were created, when the Lord God made the e arth
and the heavens.
5 Now no s
hrub had yet appeared on the e arth a and no
lant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent
p
rain on the e arth and t here was no one to work the g round,
6 but s treams b came up from the
earth and watered the
whole surface of the g round. 7 T hen the Lord God formed
a man c from the dust of the g round and b
reathed into his
nostrils the b
reath of life, and the man became a living
being.
8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in
Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 The Lord
God made all k inds of trees grow out of the g round — trees
that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the mid
dle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river watering the garden f lowed from Eden; from
there it was sepa rated into four headwaters. 11 T he name of
the f irst is the Pishon; it w
inds t hrough the entire land of
Hav i lah, where t here is gold. 12 ( The gold of that land is
good; aromatic resin d and onyx are also there.) 13 T he name
of the second river is the Gihon; it w inds through the entire
land of Cush. e 14 T he name of the t hird river is the Tig ris;
it runs a long the east side of Ashu r. And the fourth river
is the Euphrates.
15 T he Lord God took the man and put him in the Gar
den of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 A nd the Lord
God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any
tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it
you will certainly die.”
18 T he Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be
a lone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
19 Now the Lord God had f ormed out of the g
round all
the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought
them to the man to see what he would name them; and
whatever the man called each living creat ure, that was its
name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the
birds in the sky and all the wild animals.
But for Adam f no suitable helper was found. 21 So the
Lord God c aused the man to fall into a deep s leep; and
while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs g and
then c losed up the p
lace with f lesh. 22 T hen the Lord God
made a woman from the rib h he had taken out of the man,
and he brought her to the man.
23 T he man said,
“This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
a 5 Or
land ; also in verse 6 b 6 Or mist c 7 The Hebrew for man
(adam) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for ground (adamah) ;
it is also the name Adam (see verse 20). d 12 Or good; pearls
e 13 Possibly southeast Mesopotamia f 20 Or the man g 21 Or took
part of the man’s side h 22 Or part