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1The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.Cross-references: Gen 1:1 · Gen 1:10 · Gen 2:4 · Ex 20:11 · Ex 31:17 · Deut 4:19 · +28 more

2On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.Cross-references: Gen 1:31 · Ex 20:8 · Ex 23:12 · Ex 31:17 · Deut 5:14 · Isa 58:13 · +2 more

3God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.Cross-references: Ex 16:22 · Ex 20:8 · Ex 23:12 · Ex 31:13 · Ex 34:21 · Ex 35:2 · +13 more

4This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.Cross-references: Gen 1:1 · Gen 1:4 · Gen 1:28 · Gen 1:31 · Gen 5:1 · Gen 10:1 · +18 more

5No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,Cross-references: Gen 1:11 · Gen 3:23 · Gen 4:2 · Gen 4:12 · Job 5:10 · Job 38:26 · +6 more

6but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

7Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.Cross-references: Gen 3:19 · Gen 3:23 · Gen 7:22 · Num 16:22 · Num 27:16 · Job 4:19 · +21 more

8Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.Cross-references: Gen 3:24 · Gen 4:16 · Gen 13:10 · 2Ki 19:12 · Isa 51:3 · Ezek 27:23 · +5 more

9Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.Cross-references: Gen 2:17 · Gen 3:3 · Gen 3:22 · Deut 6:25 · Prov 3:18 · Prov 11:30 · +11 more

10A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers.Cross-references: Ps 46:4 · Rev 22:1

11The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;Cross-references: Gen 10:7 · Gen 10:29 · Gen 25:18 · 1Sam 15:7

12and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there.Cross-references: Ex 28:20 · Ex 39:13 · Num 11:7 · Job 28:16 · Ezek 28:13

13The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.Cross-references: Gen 10:6 · Isa 11:11

14The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.Cross-references: Gen 10:11 · Gen 10:22 · Gen 15:18 · Gen 25:18 · Deut 1:7 · Deut 11:24 · +2 more

15Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.Cross-references: Gen 2:2 · Gen 2:8 · Job 31:33 · Ps 128:2 · Eph 4:28

16Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;Cross-references: Gen 2:9 · Gen 3:1 · 1Sam 15:22 · 1Tim 4:4 · 1Tim 6:17

17but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”Cross-references: Gen 2:9 · Gen 3:1 · Gen 3:11 · Gen 3:17 · Gen 3:19 · Gen 20:7 · +36 more

18Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”Cross-references: Gen 1:31 · Gen 3:12 · Ruth 3:1 · Prov 18:22 · Eccl 4:9 · 1Cor 7:36 · +3 more

19Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.Cross-references: Gen 1:20 · Gen 1:28 · Gen 2:22 · Gen 6:20 · Gen 9:2 · Ps 8:4

20The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.Cross-references: Gen 2:18

21Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.Cross-references: Gen 15:12 · 1Sam 26:12 · Job 4:13 · Job 33:15 · Prov 19:15 · Dan 8:18

22Yahweh God made a woman from the rib which he had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.Cross-references: Gen 2:19 · Ps 127:1 · Prov 18:22 · Prov 19:14 · 1Cor 11:8 · 1Tim 2:13 · +1 more

23The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”Cross-references: Gen 29:14 · Judg 9:2 · 2Sam 5:1 · 2Sam 19:13 · 1Cor 11:8 · Eph 5:28

24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.Cross-references: Gen 24:58 · Gen 31:14 · Lev 22:12 · Deut 4:4 · Deut 10:20 · Josh 23:8 · +14 more

25The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.Cross-references: Gen 3:7 · Gen 3:10 · Ex 32:25 · Ps 25:3 · Ps 31:17 · Isa 44:9 · +9 more

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