Gênesis 2

¹ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all theThat is, the innumerable abundance of creatures in heaven and earth.host of them.

² And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and heFor he had now finished his creation, but his providence still watches over his creatures and governs them.rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

³ And God blessed the seventh day, andAppointed it to be kept holy, that man might in it consider the excellency of his works and God's goodness toward him.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 heauens and of the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lorde God made the earth and the heauens,

⁵ And 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 toGod only opens the heavens and shuts them, he sends drought and rain according to his good pleasure.rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.

⁶ But a myst went vp from the earth, and watered all the earth.

⁷ And the LORD God formed manHe shows what man's body was created from, to the intent that man should not glory in the excellency of his own nature.[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 inThis was the name of a place, as some think in Mesopotamia, most pleasant and abundant in all things.Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

⁹ And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; theWho was a sign of the life received from God.tree of life also in the midst of the garden,That is, of miserable experience, which came by disobeying God.and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

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 the first [is] Pison: that [is] it which compasseth the whole landHavilah is a country adjoining Persia to the east, and inclining towards the west.of Havilah, where [there is] gold;

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 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden toGod would not have man idle, though as yet there was no need to labour.dress it and to keep it.

¹⁶ And the LORD GodSo that man might know there was a sovereign Lord, to whom he owed obedience.commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

¹⁷ But 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 surelyBy death he means the separation of man from God, who is our life and chief happiness: and also that our disobedience is the cause of it.die.

¹⁸ Also the Lorde God saide, It is not good that the man should be himself alone: I wil make him an helpe meete for him.

¹⁹ And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] untoBy moving them to come and submit themselves to Adam.Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [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, & closed vp the flesh in steade thereof.

²² And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he aSignifying that mankind was perfect, when the woman was created, who before was like an imperfect building.woman, and brought her unto 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 a man leaveSo marriage requires a greater duty of us toward our wives, than otherwise we are bound to show to our parents.his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

²⁵ And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were notFor before sin entered, all things were honest and comely.ashamed.