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1 Thus the heauens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 For in the seuenth day GOD ended his worke which he had made, and the seuenth day he rested from al his worke, which he had made. 3 So God blessed the seuenth day, and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his worke, which God had created and made. 4 These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heauens, 5 And euery plant of the fielde, before it was in the earth, and euery herbe of the field, before it grewe: for the Lord God had not caused it to raine vpon the earth, neither was there a man to till the ground, 6 But a myst went vp from the earth, and watered all the earth. 7 The Lord God also made the man of the dust of the grounde, and breathed in his face breath of life, and the man was a liuing soule. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made. 9 (For out of the ground made the Lord God to grow euery tree pleasant to the sight, and good for meate: the tree of life also in the mids of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and of euill. 10 And out of Eden went a riuer to water the garden, and from thence it was deuided, and became into foure heads. 11 The name of one is Pishon: the same compasseth the whole land of Hauilah, where is golde. 12 And the golde of that land is good: there is Bdelium, and the Onix stone. 13 And the name of the seconde riuer is Gihon: the same compasseth the whole lande of Cush. 14 The name also of the third riuer is Hiddekel: this goeth toward the Eastside of Asshur: and the fourth riuer is Perath) 15 Then the Lord God tooke the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, that he might dresse it and keepe it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Thou shalt eate freely of euery tree of the garden, 17 But of the tree of knowledge of good and euill, thou shalt not eate of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the death. 18 Also the Lord God saide, It is not good that the man should be himself alone: I wil make him an helpe meete for him. 19 So the Lord God formed of the earth euery beast of the fielde, and euery foule of the heauen, and brought them vnto the man to see howe he would call them: for howsoeuer the man named the liuing creature, so was the name thereof. 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. 21 Therefore the Lord God caused an heauie sleepe to fall vpon the man, and he slept: and he tooke one of his ribbes, and closed vp the flesh in steade thereof. 22 And the ribbe which the Lord God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her to the man. 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. 24 Therefore shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they shall be one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

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  • Adam

    The first man

    Formed from the dust by God's own hand, the father of all who live.

    Cited in the guide: Genesis 1–5

Cross references (24)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Exodus 31:17; Exodus 20:11; Psalm 33:6; Genesis 1:1; Isaiah 45:18
  2. 2 Hebrews 4:4; Exodus 31:17; Deuteronomy 5:14; Exodus 20:8–11; Exodus 23:12
  3. 3 Leviticus 23:3; Mark 2:27; Ezekiel 20:12; Exodus 31:13–17; Luke 23:56
  4. 4 Genesis 5:1; Revelation 1:8; Exodus 15:3; Genesis 1:4; Genesis 36:1
  5. 5 Genesis 3:23; Job 5:10; Hebrews 6:7; Genesis 4:2; Job 38:26–28
  6. 7 Ecclesiastes 12:7; 1 Corinthians 15:45; Job 33:4; Isaiah 64:8; Acts 17:25
  7. 8 Genesis 3:24; Ezekiel 28:13; Genesis 13:10; 2 Kings 19:12; Genesis 4:16
  8. 9 Genesis 3:22; Revelation 2:7; Revelation 22:14; Revelation 22:2; Ezekiel 47:12
  9. 10 Revelation 22:1; Psalm 46:4
  10. 11 Genesis 25:18; Genesis 10:29; 1 Samuel 15:7; Genesis 10:7
  11. 12 Ezekiel 28:13; Job 28:16; Exodus 28:20; Exodus 39:13; Numbers 11:7
  12. 13 Genesis 10:6; Isaiah 11:11
  13. 14 Daniel 10:4; Genesis 15:18; Genesis 10:22; Deuteronomy 1:7; Deuteronomy 11:24
  14. 15 Psalm 128:2; Genesis 2:8; Ephesians 4:28; Genesis 2:2
  15. 16 1 Samuel 15:22; 1 Timothy 4:4; 1 Timothy 6:17; Genesis 2:9; Genesis 3:1–2
  16. 17 Romans 6:23; James 1:15; Genesis 3:19; 1 Corinthians 15:56; Galatians 3:10
  17. 18 Ecclesiastes 4:9–12; Proverbs 18:22; 1 Peter 3:7; 1 Corinthians 11:7–12; Ruth 3:1
  18. 19 Psalm 8:4–8; Genesis 1:28; Genesis 1:20–26; Genesis 9:2; Genesis 6:20
  19. 20 Genesis 2:18
  20. 21 Genesis 15:12; Job 4:13; Job 33:15; 1 Samuel 26:12; Daniel 8:18
  21. 22 1 Corinthians 11:8–9; 1 Timothy 2:13; Hebrews 13:4; Proverbs 18:22; Proverbs 19:14
  22. 23 Ephesians 5:28–30; 1 Corinthians 11:8–9; 2 Samuel 5:1; Judges 9:2; Genesis 29:14
  23. 24 Matthew 19:3–9; Ephesians 5:28–31; Mark 10:6–12; Romans 7:2; 1 Peter 3:1–7
  24. 25 Genesis 3:7; Genesis 3:10–11; Romans 10:11; Jeremiah 17:13; Joel 2:26

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 2:23 Clement of Rome, First Epistle to the Corinthians (Chapters I–VI)

    Envy has alienated wives from their husbands, and changed that saying of our father Adam, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh." Envy and strife have overthrown great cities and rooted up mighty nations.

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  2. Quotes verse 2:7 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book II, Chapters XXXIV–XXXV)

    Wherefore also the prophetic word declares of the first-formed man, "He became a living soul," teaching us that by the participation of life the soul became alive; so that the soul, and the life which it possesses, must be understood as being separate existences.

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 2:7 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XIII, Chapters XX–XXI)

    And hereby, in Thy Word, not the depth of the sea, but the earth parted from the bitterness of the waters, bringeth forth not the creeping and flying creature that hath life, but the living soul itself. For now hath it no longer need of baptism, as the heathen have, and as itself had when it was covered with the …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  4. Quotes verse 2:4 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily II)

    As then Moses calleth it the book of heaven and earth, although he hath not discoursed of heaven and earth only, but also of all things that are in the midst thereof; so also this man hath named his book from that which is the sum of all the great things done.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  5. Quotes verse 2:7 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XVIII)

    Go to the first book of the Scripture, which even you receive; And God formed man of the dust of the ground.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)