Bible Gateway passage: Genesis 2 - New International Version (2024)

2Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.^(A)

²By the seventh day^(B) God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.^{(C) 3}Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,^(D) because on it he rested^(E) from all the work of creating^(F) that he had done.

Adam and Eve

⁴This is the account^(G) of the heavens and the earth when they were created,^(H) when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

⁵Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth^[a] and no plant had yet sprung up,^(I) for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth^(J) and there was no one to work the ground, ⁶but streams^[b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. ⁷Then the Lord God formed^(K) a man^[c](L) from the dust^(M) of the ground^(N) and breathed into his nostrils the breath^(O) of life,^(P) and the man became a living being.^(Q)

⁸Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden;^(R) and there he put the man he had formed. ⁹The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees^(S) that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life^(T) and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.^(U)

¹⁰A river^(V) watering the garden flowed from Eden;^(W) from there it was separated into four headwaters. ¹¹The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah,^(X) where there is gold. ¹²(The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin^[d](Y) and onyx are also there.) ¹³The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.^{[e] 14}The name of the third river is the Tigris;^(Z) it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.^(AA)

¹⁵The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden^(AB) to work it and take care of it. ¹⁶And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;^{(AC) 17}but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,^(AD) for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”^(AE)

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

¹⁹Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals^(AG) and all the birds in the sky.^(AH) He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called^(AI) each living creature,^(AJ) that was its name. ²⁰So 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^(AK) was found. ²¹So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep;^(AL) and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs^[g] and then closed up the place with flesh. ²²Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib^[h](AM) he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

²³The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;^(AN)
she shall be called^(AO) ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.^(AP)”

²⁴That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united^(AQ) to his wife, and they become one flesh.^(AR)

²⁵Adam and his wife were both naked,^(AS) and they felt no shame.

Footnotes

1. Genesis 2:5 Or land; also in verse 6
2. Genesis 2:6 Or mist
3. Genesis 2:7 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).
4. Genesis 2:12 Or good; pearls
5. Genesis 2:13 Possibly southeast Mesopotamia
6. Genesis 2:20 Or the man
7. Genesis 2:21 Or took part of the man’s side
8. Genesis 2:22 Or part

Cross references

1. Genesis 2:1 : Dt 4:19; 17:3; 2Ki 17:16; 21:3; Ps 104:2; Isa 44:24; 45:12; 48:13; 51:13
2. Genesis 2:2 : Dt 5:14
3. Genesis 2:2 : ver 2-3; Ex 20:11; 31:17; 34:21; Jn 5:17; Heb 4:4*
4. Genesis 2:3 : Ex 16:23; 20:10; 23:12; 31:15; 35:2; Lev 23:3; Ne 9:14; Isa 58:13; Jer 17:22
5. Genesis 2:3 : Ps 95:11; Heb 4:1-11
6. Genesis 2:3 : S Ge 1:1
7. Genesis 2:4 : Ge 5:1; 6:9; 10:1; 11:10, 27; 25:12, 19; 36:1, 9; 37:2
8. Genesis 2:4 : Ge 1:1; Job 38:8-11
9. Genesis 2:5 : Ge 1:11
10. Genesis 2:5 : Job 38:28; Ps 65:9-10; Jer 10:13
11. Genesis 2:7 : Isa 29:16; 43:1, 21; 44:2
12. Genesis 2:7 : S Ge 1:27
13. Genesis 2:7 : Ge 3:19; 18:27; Job 4:19; 10:9; 17:16; 34:15; Ps 90:3; Ecc 3:20; 12:7
14. Genesis 2:7 : Ge 3:23; 4:2; Ps 103:14; Jer 18:6; 1Co 15:47
15. Genesis 2:7 : S Ge 1:2; Job 27:3; Isa 2:22
16. Genesis 2:7 : S Ge 1:30; Isa 42:5; Ac 17:25
17. Genesis 2:7 : Job 12:10; 32:8; 33:4; 34:14; Ps 104:29; Isa 57:16; Eze 37:5; 1Co 15:45*
18. Genesis 2:8 : ver 10, 15; Ge 3:23, 24; 4:16; 13:10; Isa 51:3; Eze 28:13; 31:9, 16; 36:35; Joel 2:3
19. Genesis 2:9 : Eze 31:8
20. Genesis 2:9 : Ge 3:22, 24; Pr 3:18; 11:30; S Rev 2:7
21. Genesis 2:9 : Eze 47:12
22. Genesis 2:10 : Nu 24:6; Ps 46:4; Eze 47:5
23. Genesis 2:10 : S ver 8
24. Genesis 2:11 : Ge 10:7; 25:18
25. Genesis 2:12 : Nu 11:7
26. Genesis 2:14 : Ge 41:1; Da 10:4
27. Genesis 2:14 : Ge 15:18; 31:21; Ex 23:31; Nu 22:5; Dt 1:7; 11:24; Jos 1:4; 2Sa 8:3; 1Ki 4:21; 2Ki 23:29; 24:7; 1Ch 5:9; 18:3; 2Ch 35:20; Jer 13:4; 46:2; 51:63; S Rev 9:14
28. Genesis 2:15 : S ver 8
29. Genesis 2:16 : Ge 3:1-2
30. Genesis 2:17 : Ge 3:11, 17
31. Genesis 2:17 : Ge 3:1, 3; 5:5; 9:29; Dt 30:15, 19; Jer 42:16; Eze 3:18; S Ro 5:12; S 6:23
32. Genesis 2:18 : Pr 31:11; 1Co 11:9; 1Ti 2:13
33. Genesis 2:19 : Ps 8:7
34. Genesis 2:19 : S Ge 1:20
35. Genesis 2:19 : S Ge 1:5
36. Genesis 2:19 : Ge 1:24
37. Genesis 2:20 : Ge 3:20; 4:1
38. Genesis 2:21 : Ge 15:12; 1Sa 26:12; Job 33:15
39. Genesis 2:22 : 1Co 11:8, 9, 12; 1Ti 2:13
40. Genesis 2:23 : Ge 29:14; Eph 5:28-30
41. Genesis 2:23 : S Ge 1:5
42. Genesis 2:23 : 1Co 11:8
43. Genesis 2:24 : Mal 2:15
44. Genesis 2:24 : Mt 19:5*; Mk 10:7-8*; 1Co 6:16*; Eph 5:31*
45. Genesis 2:25 : Ge 3:7, 10-11; Isa 47:3; La 1:8