Genesis 2:7 - John Wesley's Notes

Genesis 2:7

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.

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Genesis 2:4-7

In these verses, 1. Here is a name given to the Creator, which we have not yet met with, Jehovah. The LORD in capital letters, is constantly used in our English translation, for Jehovah. This is that great and incommunicable name of God, which speaks his having his being of himself, and his giving being to all things. It properly means, He that was, and that is, and that is to come. 2. Further notice taken of the production of plants and herbs, because they were made to be food for man. 3. A more particular account of the creation of man, Genesis 2:7. Man is a little world, consisting of heaven and earth, soul and body. Here we have all account of the original of both, and the putting of both together: The Lord God, the great fountain of being and power, formed man. Of the other creatures it is said, they were created and made; but of man, that he was formed, which notes a gradual process in the work with great accuracy and exactness. To express the creation of this new thing, he takes a new word: a word (some think) borrowed from the potter's forming his vessel upon the wheel. The body of man is curiously wrought. And the soul takes its rise from the breath of heaven. It came immediately from God; he gave it to be put into the body, Ecclesiastes 12:7 as afterwards he gave the tables of stone of his own writing to be put into the ark. 'Tis by it that man is a living soul, that is, a living man. The body would be a worthless, useless carcase, if the soul did not animate it.

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