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5 before any aplant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the Lord God had not bcaused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man cto till the ground;  
6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And the Lord God formed man of the adust of the ground, and bbreathed into his cnostrils the breath of life; and dman became a living being.  

Life in God’s Garden

8 The Lord God planted aa garden beastward in cEden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.  
9 And out of the ground the Lord God made aevery tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. bThe tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and cevil.  
10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads.
11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts athe whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.  
12 And the gold of that land is good. aBdellium and the onyx stone are there.  
13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.
14 The name of the third river is aHiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of2 Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.  
15 Then the Lord God took1 the man and put him in the garden of Eden to2 tend and keep it.  
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ayou shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it byou shall surely cdie.”  
18 And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; aI will make him a helper comparable to him.”  
19 aOut of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and bbrought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.  
20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.
21 And the Lord God caused a adeep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.  
22 Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He1 made into a woman, aand He bbrought her to the man.  
23 And Adam said:
“This is now abone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called1 Woman,
Because she was btaken out of Man.”  
24 aTherefore a man shall leave his father and mother and bbe joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.  
25 aAnd they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not bashamed. 
Book Notes:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

Genesis

GENESIS, the book of the origin or production of all things, consists of two parts: the first, comprehended in the first through eleventh chapters, gives a general history; the second, contained in the subsequent chapters, gives a special history. The two parts are essentially connected; the one, which sets out with an account of the descent of the human race from a single pair, the introduction of sin into the world, and the announcement of the scheme of divine mercy for repairing the ruins of the fall, was necessary to pave the way for relating the other, namely, the call of Abraham, and the selection of his posterity for carrying out the gracious purpose of God. An evident unity of method, therefore, pervades this book, and the information contained in it was of the greatest importance to the Hebrew people, as without it they could not have understood the frequent references made in their law to the purposes and promises of God regarding themselves. The arguments that have been already adduced as establishing the Mosaic origin of the Pentateuch prove of course that Moses was the author of Genesis. The few passages on which the rationalists grounded their assertions that it was the composition of a later age have been successfully shown to warrant no such conclusion; the use of Egyptian words and the minute acquaintance with Egyptian life and manners, displayed in the history of Joseph, harmonize with the education of Moses, and whether he received his information by immediate revelation, from tradition, or from written documents, it comes to us as the authentic work of an author who wrote as he was inspired by the Holy Ghost (II Peter 1:21).

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