Thematic Bible




Genesis 2:1 (show verse)

So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed.

Genesis 2:2 (show verse)

By the seventh day God completed His work that He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done.

Genesis 2:3 (show verse)

God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it He rested from His work of creation.

Genesis 2:4 (show verse)

These are the records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation at the time that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

Genesis 2:5 (show verse)

No shrub of the field had yet grown on the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.

Genesis 2:6 (show verse)

But water would come out of the ground and water the entire surface of the land.

Genesis 2:7 (show verse)

Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Genesis 2:8 (show verse)

The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there He placed the man He had formed.

Genesis 2:9 (show verse)

The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:10 (show verse)

A river went out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.

Genesis 2:11 (show verse)

The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:12 (show verse)

Gold from that land is pure; bdellium and onyx are also there.

Genesis 2:13 (show verse)

The name of the second river is Gihon, which flows through the entire land of Cush.

Genesis 2:14 (show verse)

The name of the third river is the Tigris, which runs east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Genesis 2:15 (show verse)

The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.

Genesis 2:16 (show verse)

And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the garden,

Genesis 2:17 (show verse)

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”

Genesis 2:18 (show verse)

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his complement.”

Genesis 2:19 (show verse)

So the Lord God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it. And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.

Genesis 2:20 (show verse)

The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man no helper was found as his complement.

Genesis 2:21 (show verse)

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place.

Genesis 2:22 (show verse)

Then the Lord God made the rib He had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.

Genesis 2:23 (show verse)

And the man said:

This one, at last, is bone of my bone
and flesh of my flesh;
this one will be called “woman,”
for she was taken from man.

Genesis 2:24 (show verse)

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

Genesis 2:25 (show verse)

Both the man and his wife were naked, yet felt no shame.