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geneva@Genesis:2:1 @ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the (note:)That is, the innumerable abundance of creatures in heaven and earth.(:note) host of them.

geneva@Genesis:2:2 @ And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he (note:)For he had now finished his creation, but his providence still watches over his creatures and governs them.(:note) rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

geneva@Genesis:2:3 @ And God blessed the seventh day, and (note:)Appointed it to be kept holy, that man might in it consider the excellency of his works and God's goodness toward him.(:note) sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

geneva@Genesis:2:4 @ These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lorde God made the earth and the heauens,

geneva@Genesis:2:5 @ And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to (note:)God only opens the heavens and shuts them, he sends drought and rain according to his good pleasure.(:note) rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.

geneva@Genesis:2:6 @ But a myst went vp from the earth, and watered all the earth.

geneva@Genesis:2:7 @ And the LORD God formed man (note:)He shows what man's body was created from, to the intent that man should not glory in the excellency of his own nature.(:note) [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

geneva@Genesis:2:8 @ And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in (note:)This was the name of a place, as some think in Mesopotamia, most pleasant and abundant in all things.(:note) Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

geneva@Genesis:2:9 @ And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the (note:)Who was a sign of the life received from God.(:note) tree of life also in the midst of the garden, That is, of miserable experience, which came by disobeying God. and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

geneva@Genesis:2:10 @ And out of Eden went a riuer to water the garden, and from thence it was deuided, and became into foure heads.

geneva@Genesis:2:11 @ The name of the first [is] Pison: that [is] it which compasseth the whole land (note:)Havilah is a country adjoining Persia to the east, and inclining towards the west.(:note) of Havilah, where [there is] gold;

geneva@Genesis:2:12 @ And the golde of that land is good: there is Bdelium, and the Onix stone.

geneva@Genesis:2:13 @ And the name of the seconde riuer is Gihon: the same compasseth the whole lande of Cush.

geneva@Genesis:2:14 @ The name also of the third riuer is Hiddekel: this goeth toward the Eastside of Asshur: and the fourth riuer is Perath)

geneva@Genesis:2:15 @ And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to (note:)God would not have man idle, though as yet there was no need to labour.(:note) dress it and to keep it.

geneva@Genesis:2:16 @ And the LORD God (note:)So that man might know there was a sovereign Lord, to whom he owed obedience.(:note) commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

geneva@Genesis:2:17 @ But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely (note:)By death he means the separation of man from God, who is our life and chief happiness: and also that our disobedience is the cause of it.(:note) die.

geneva@Genesis:2:18 @ Also the Lorde God saide, It is not good that the man should be himself alone: I wil make him an helpe meete for him.

geneva@Genesis:2:19 @ And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto (note:)By moving them to come and submit themselves to Adam.(:note) Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof.

geneva@Genesis:2:20 @ The man therefore gaue names vnto all cattell, and to the foule of the heauen, and to euery beast of the fielde: but for Adam founde he not an helpe meete for him.

geneva@Genesis:2:21 @ Therefore the Lord God caused an heauie sleepe to fall vpon the man, and he slept: and he tooke one of his ribbes, & closed vp the flesh in steade thereof.

geneva@Genesis:2:22 @ And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a (note:)Signifying that mankind was perfect, when the woman was created, who before was like an imperfect building.(:note) woman, and brought her unto the man.

geneva@Genesis:2:23 @ Then the man said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man.

geneva@Genesis:2:24 @ Therefore shall a man leave (note:)So marriage requires a greater duty of us toward our wives, than otherwise we are bound to show to our parents.(:note) his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

geneva@Genesis:2:25 @ And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not (note:)For before sin entered, all things were honest and comely.(:note) ashamed.

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