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Text -- Genesis 2:1-11 (NET)
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2:1 The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them .
2:2 By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing , and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing .
2:3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation .
The Creation of Man and Woman
2:4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created – when the Lord God made the earth and heavens .
2:5 Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth , and no plant of the field had yet sprouted , for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth , and there was no man to cultivate the ground .
2:6 Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground .
2:7 The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life , and the man became a living being .
2:8 The Lord God planted an orchard in the east , in Eden ; and there he placed the man he had formed .
2:9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil , every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food . (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard .)
2:10 Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard , and from there it divides into four headstreams .
2:11 The name of the first is Pishon ; it runs through the entire land of Havilah , where there is gold .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Eden |
EVOLUTION |
ADAM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE APOCRYPHA |
IMPUTATION |
Creation |
God |
Tree of the knowledge of good and evil |
GARDEN |
Fall of man |
ANTHROPOLOGY |
GENESIS, 3 |
GENESIS, 1-2 |
Sabbath |
Life |
ADAM IN THE NEW TESTAMENT |
Havilah |
Gold |
ADAM IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
Day |
Seven |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Gen 2:1; Gen 2:1; Gen 2:2; Gen 2:2; Gen 2:2; Gen 2:3; Gen 2:3; Gen 2:3; Gen 2:4; Gen 2:4; Gen 2:4; Gen 2:4; Gen 2:4; Gen 2:4; Gen 2:5; Gen 2:5; Gen 2:5; Gen 2:5; Gen 2:6; Gen 2:6; Gen 2:6; Gen 2:6; Gen 2:6; Gen 2:7; Gen 2:7; Gen 2:7; Gen 2:7; Gen 2:7; Gen 2:7; Gen 2:8; Gen 2:8; Gen 2:8; Gen 2:8; Gen 2:8; Gen 2:8; Gen 2:9; Gen 2:9; Gen 2:9; Gen 2:9; Gen 2:9; Gen 2:10; Gen 2:10; Gen 2:10; Gen 2:10; Gen 2:10; Gen 2:11
NET Notes: Gen 2:1 Heb “and all the host of them.” Here the “host” refers to all the entities and creatures that God created to populate the worl...
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NET Notes: Gen 2:2 The Hebrew term שָׁבַּת (shabbat) can be translated “to rest” (“and he rested”) but ...
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NET Notes: Gen 2:3 Heb “for on it he ceased from all his work which God created to make.” The last infinitive construct and the verb before it form a verbal ...
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NET Notes: Gen 2:4 See the note on the phrase “the heavens and the earth” in 1:1; the order here is reversed, but the meaning is the same.
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NET Notes: Gen 2:5 The last clause in v. 5, “and there was no man to cultivate the ground,” anticipates the curse and the expulsion from the garden (Gen 3:23...
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NET Notes: Gen 2:6 Here is an indication of fertility. The water would well up from the earth (אֶרֶץ, ’erets) and water all the surfa...
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NET Notes: Gen 2:7 The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “being”) is often translated “soul,” but the word usually ...
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NET Notes: Gen 2:8 The perfect verbal form here requires the past perfect translation since it describes an event that preceded the event described in the main clause.
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NET Notes: Gen 2:9 The expression “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” must be interpreted to mean that the tree would produce fruit which, when eaten, g...
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