- 1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
- 2And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
- 3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
- 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
- 5And 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 rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
- 6But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
- 7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- 8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- 9And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
- 10And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
- 11The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
- 12And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
- 13And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
- 14And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
- 15And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
- 16And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
- 17But 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 die.
- 18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
- 19And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
- 20And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
- 21And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
- 22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
- 23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
- 24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
- 25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
KING JAMES VERSION
GENESIS 2
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CHAPTER VISUAL
Genesis 2 — The garden is planted, the man is formed, and the woman is given as his companion.
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The scene combines the garden, its river, the living creatures, and the union of the man and woman. Their modesty is preserved through pose and foreground vegetation.
Scripture basis: Genesis 2:1–25King James Version · Standardized 1769 text with Strong’s numbering · Public domain outside the United Kingdom
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Archaeological Evidence
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCEManuscript
Old Babylonian composition, principally eighteenth–seventeenth century BC witnesses
Atrahasis Epic Tablets
Old Babylonian Atrahasis joins human creation, overpopulation crises, and a divinely sent flood in one composition, providing an early Mesopotamian framework for comparison with Genesis while presenting radically different views of gods, labor, judgment, and human life.
Genesis 1:26–28 · Genesis 2:7 · Genesis 6:5–22
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCEArtifact
About AD 340
The Dogmatic Sarcophagus
The mid-fourth-century Dogmatic Sarcophagus joins creation, miracle, apostolic, and deliverance scenes in a two-register Roman tomb, witnessing Christian biblical interpretation after Nicaea without functioning as a literal illustrated creed.
Genesis 2:21–24 · John 11:38–44
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCEManuscript
Third century AD
P.Oxy. VII 1007: Genesis and the Double-Yod Divine Name
A third-century parchment codex leaf from Oxyrhynchus preserves portions of Genesis 2-3 in Greek and marks the divine name with an unusual crossed double-yod sign.
Genesis 2:7–9 · Genesis 2:16–19 · Genesis 2:23–25
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCEManuscript
Late Hasmonean or early Herodian period
4QGenesisᵇ (4Q2): Genesis 1–2 and 4–5
Four Cave 4 fragments preserve portions of Genesis 1–2 and 4–5 in a Hebrew scroll copied during the Second Temple period.
Genesis 1:18–31 · Genesis 2:1–3 · Genesis 4:2–11
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCEManuscript
Fifth–sixth century AD
The Cotton Genesis (Cotton MS Otho B VI)
The Cotton Genesis (Cotton MS Otho B VI) is a distinct physical witness to the material transmission and reception of Scripture, identified by its own shelfmark, date, contents, and custodial history.
Genesis 2:4–25 · Genesis 3:1–24
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCEInscription
late eighth century BC, approximately 735-725 BC
Kuttamuwa Funerary Stele from Zincirli
An eighth-century BC basalt stele excavated in a domestic mortuary installation at Zincirli records Kuttamuwa's provision for annual offerings and locates his nbš—often translated soul or life-force—in the monument. The inscription gives direct evidence for Sam'alian funerary belief while requiring careful distance from biblical anthropology.
Genesis 2:7 · Deuteronomy 26:14 · 2 Kings 15:29
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Doctrine and DiscernmentMarriage and FamilySpiritual Warfare
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Leave the Tree Alone
A forceful Christian hip-hop warning rooted in Eden’s forbidden tree: reject the serpent’s lie that sin is safe, receive salvation as God’s gift, and walk in repentance, obedience, and the Spirit rather than turning grace into permission to rebel.