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Genesis 2:11The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 31:17Exod 20:11Ps 33:6Gen 1:1Isa 45:182 Kgs 19:15Isa 42:5Isa 45:12Ps 146:62 Chr 2:12
Genesis 2:22By 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.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 4:4Exod 31:17Deut 5:14Exod 20:8-11Exod 23:12John 5:17Isa 58:13Gen 1:31
Genesis 2:33God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 23:3Ezek 20:12Mark 2:27Exod 31:13-17Luke 23:56Exod 34:21Exod 35:2-3Isa 58:13-14Jer 17:21-27Lev 25:2-3
Genesis 2:44This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created—when the Lord God made the earth and heavens.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 5:1Rev 1:8Exod 15:3Gen 1:1Gen 1:31Gen 1:4Gen 36:11 Kgs 18:392 Chr 20:6Exod 6:16
Genesis 2:55Now 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.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 3:23Heb 6:7Job 5:10Gen 1:11-12Gen 4:12Gen 4:2Job 38:26-28Jer 14:22Ps 104:14Ps 135:7
Genesis 2:66Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
Genesis 2:77The 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.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 12:7Job 33:41 Cor 15:45Isa 64:8Acts 17:251 Cor 15:47Job 27:3Gen 3:19Gen 7:22Eccl 3:20-21
Genesis 2:88The Lord God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 28:13Gen 3:24Gen 13:102 Kgs 19:12Ezek 31:8-9Gen 4:16Joel 2:3Isa 51:3Ezek 31:16Ezek 27:23
Genesis 2:99The 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.)Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 3:22Rev 2:7Rev 22:14Rev 22:2Ezek 47:12Prov 11:30Prov 3:18Gen 2:17Gen 3:3Ezek 31:16
Genesis 2:1010Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 22:1Ps 46:4
Genesis 2:1111The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 25:181 Sam 15:7Gen 10:29Gen 10:7
Genesis 2:1212(The gold of that land is pure; pearls and lapis lazuli are also there.)Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 28:13Exod 28:20Job 28:16Exod 39:13Num 11:7
Genesis 2:1313The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through the entire land of Cush.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 10:6Isa 11:11
Genesis 2:1414The name of the third river is Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 10:4Gen 15:18Deut 1:7Deut 11:24Gen 10:11Gen 10:22Gen 25:18Rev 9:14
Genesis 2:1515The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 128:2Gen 2:8Eph 4:28Gen 2:2
Genesis 2:1616Then the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 15:221 Tim 4:41 Tim 6:17Gen 2:9Gen 3:1-2
Genesis 2:1717but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 6:23Jas 1:15Gen 3:191 Cor 15:561 Cor 15:22Gal 3:10Rev 21:81 John 5:16Col 2:131 Tim 5:6
Genesis 2:1818The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 4:9-12Prov 18:221 Cor 11:7-121 Pet 3:71 Tim 2:11-13Ruth 3:1Gen 1:31Gen 3:121 Cor 7:36
Genesis 2:1919The Lord God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 8:4-8Gen 1:28Gen 1:20-26Gen 9:2Gen 2:22-23Gen 6:20
Genesis 2:2020So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 2:18
Genesis 2:2121So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 15:12Job 4:131 Sam 26:12Dan 8:18Job 33:15Prov 19:15
Genesis 2:2222Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 11:8-91 Tim 2:13Heb 13:4Prov 18:22Prov 19:14Gen 2:19Ps 127:1
Genesis 2:2323Then the man said, “This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 5:28-301 Cor 11:8-92 Sam 5:1Gen 29:14Judg 9:22 Sam 19:13
Genesis 2:2424That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become one family.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 19:3-9Eph 5:28-31Mark 10:6-12Rom 7:21 Pet 3:1-71 Cor 6:16-171 Cor 7:2-4Prov 31:10Mal 2:14-161 Cor 7:10-11
Genesis 2:2525The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 3:7Gen 3:10-11Rom 10:11Jer 17:13Joel 2:26Isa 47:3Isa 54:4Exod 32:25Ezek 16:61Luke 9:26
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