Genesis:2

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* 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 , * 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 . * But a myst went vp from the earth , and watered all the earth . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * And out of Eden went a riuer to water the garden , and from thence it was deuided , and became into foure heads . * 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 ; * And the golde of that land is good : there is Bdelium , and the Onix stone . * And the name of the seconde riuer is Gihon : the same compasseth the whole lande of Cush . * The name also of the third riuer is Hiddekel : this goeth toward the Eastside of Asshur : and the fourth riuer is Perath ) * 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 . * 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 : * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * Therefore the Lord God caused an heauie sleepe to fall vpon the man , and he slept : and he tooke one of his ribbes , &amp ; closed vp the flesh in steade thereof . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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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