1 And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host; 2 and God completes by the seventh day His work which He has made, and ceases by the seventh day from all His work which He has made. 3 And God blesses the seventh day, and sanctifies it, for in it He has ceased from all His work which God had created for making. 4 These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth in their being created, in the day of YHWH God’s making the earth and the heavens; 5 and no shrub of the field is yet in the earth, and no herb of the field yet sprouts, for YHWH God has not rained on the earth, and there is not a man to serve the ground, 6 and a mist goes up from the earth, and has watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And YHWH God forms the man—dust from the ground, and breathes into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becomes a living creature. 8 And YHWH God plants a garden in Eden, at the east, and He sets there the man whom He has formed; 9 and YHWH God causes to sprout from the ground every tree desirable for appearance, and good for food, and the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. 10 And a river is going out from Eden to water the garden, and from there it is parted, and has become four chief [rivers]; 11 the name of the first [is] Pison, it [is] that which is surrounding the whole land of Havilah where the gold [is], 12 and the gold of that land [is] good; the bdellium and the shoham stone [are] there; 13 and the name of the second river [is] Gihon, it [is] that which is surrounding the whole land of Cush; 14 and the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel, it [is] that which is going east of Asshur; and the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15 And YHWH God takes the man, and causes him to rest in the Garden of Eden, to serve it and to keep it. 16 And YHWH God lays a charge on the man, saying, “From every tree of the garden eating you eat; 17 but from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, you do not eat from it, for in the day of your eating from it—dying you die.” 18 And YHWH God says, “[It is] not good for the man to be alone; I make him a helper as his counterpart.” 19 And YHWH God forms from the ground every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens, and brings [them] to the man, to see what he calls it; and whatever the man calls a living creature, that [is] its name. 20 And the man calls names to all the livestock, and to bird of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man a helper has not been found as his counterpart. 21 And YHWH God causes a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he sleeps, and He takes one of his ribs, and closes up flesh in its stead. 22 And YHWH God builds up the rib which He has taken out of the man into a woman, and brings her to the man; 23 and the man says, “This at last! Bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!” For this is called Woman, for this has been taken from Man; 24 therefore a man leaves his father and his mother, and has cleaved to his wife, and they have become one flesh. 25 And both of them are naked, the man and his wife, and they are not ashamed of themselves.
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- 1 Exodus 31:17; Exodus 20:11; Psalm 33:6; Genesis 1:1; Isaiah 45:18
- 2 Hebrews 4:4; Exodus 31:17; Deuteronomy 5:14; Exodus 20:8–11; Exodus 23:12
- 3 Leviticus 23:3; Mark 2:27; Ezekiel 20:12; Exodus 31:13–17; Luke 23:56
- 4 Genesis 5:1; Revelation 1:8; Exodus 15:3; Genesis 1:4; Genesis 36:1
- 5 Genesis 3:23; Job 5:10; Hebrews 6:7; Genesis 4:2; Job 38:26–28
- 7 Ecclesiastes 12:7; 1 Corinthians 15:45; Job 33:4; Isaiah 64:8; Acts 17:25
- 8 Genesis 3:24; Ezekiel 28:13; Genesis 13:10; 2 Kings 19:12; Genesis 4:16
- 9 Genesis 3:22; Revelation 2:7; Revelation 22:14; Revelation 22:2; Ezekiel 47:12
- 10 Revelation 22:1; Psalm 46:4
- 11 Genesis 25:18; Genesis 10:29; 1 Samuel 15:7; Genesis 10:7
- 12 Ezekiel 28:13; Job 28:16; Exodus 28:20; Exodus 39:13; Numbers 11:7
- 13 Genesis 10:6; Isaiah 11:11
- 14 Daniel 10:4; Genesis 15:18; Genesis 10:22; Deuteronomy 1:7; Deuteronomy 11:24
- 15 Psalm 128:2; Genesis 2:8; Ephesians 4:28; Genesis 2:2
- 16 1 Samuel 15:22; 1 Timothy 4:4; 1 Timothy 6:17; Genesis 2:9; Genesis 3:1–2
- 17 Romans 6:23; James 1:15; Genesis 3:19; 1 Corinthians 15:56; Galatians 3:10
- 18 Ecclesiastes 4:9–12; Proverbs 18:22; 1 Peter 3:7; 1 Corinthians 11:7–12; Ruth 3:1
- 19 Psalm 8:4–8; Genesis 1:28; Genesis 1:20–26; Genesis 9:2; Genesis 6:20
- 20 Genesis 2:18
- 21 Genesis 15:12; Job 4:13; Job 33:15; 1 Samuel 26:12; Daniel 8:18
- 22 1 Corinthians 11:8–9; 1 Timothy 2:13; Hebrews 13:4; Proverbs 18:22; Proverbs 19:14
- 23 Ephesians 5:28–30; 1 Corinthians 11:8–9; 2 Samuel 5:1; Judges 9:2; Genesis 29:14
- 24 Matthew 19:3–9; Ephesians 5:28–31; Mark 10:6–12; Romans 7:2; 1 Peter 3:1–7
- 25 Genesis 3:7; Genesis 3:10–11; Romans 10:11; Jeremiah 17:13; Joel 2:26
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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.
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.
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)
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)
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)