g.
God resting in satisfaction, the seventh day
2:1-3
Gen. 2
:1
2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth and all their host were finished.
Gen. 2
:2
2:2
And on the
aseventh day God finished His work which He had done, and He
1brested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Gen. 2
:3
2:3
And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it He rested from all His work which God had
1created and made.
B.
God's procedures to fulfill His purpose
2:4-25
1.
The background — no rain from heaven, no man on the ground, no life in the field, only a mist from the earth
vv. 4-6
Gen. 2
:4
2:4
1These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were
2created.
3When 4Jehovah God
2made earth and heaven,
Gen. 2
:5
2:5
And no
aplant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up — for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to
1bwork the ground,
Gen. 2
:6
2:6
But a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground —
2.
The first step — creating man as a vessel to contain God as life
vv. 7-15
Gen. 2
:7
2:7
Jehovah God
1formed 2man from the
3adust of the
4ground and breathed into his nostrils the
5bbreath of life, and man became a living
6csoul.
3.
The second step — having man receive God as life
vv. 8-17
a.
Placing man in front of the tree of life
vv. 8-9
Gen. 2
:8
2:8
And Jehovah God planted a
agarden in
1Eden, in the east; and there He put the man whom He had formed.
Gen. 2
:9
2:9
And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is
1pleasant to the sight and good for food, as well as the
2atree of life in the middle of the garden and the
3btree of the knowledge of good and evil.
b.
Putting man in the garden with its river
vv. 10-15
Gen. 2
:10
2:10
And a
1ariver went
2forth from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became
3four 4branches.
Gen. 2
:11
2:11
The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that goes around the whole land of
aHavilah, where there is gold.
Gen. 2
:12
2:12
And the
1gold of that land is good;
abdellium and
bonyx stone are there.
Gen. 2
:13
2:13
And the name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that goes around the whole land of Cush.
Gen. 2
:14
2:14
And the name of the third river is
aHiddekel; it is the one that goes east of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
Gen. 2
:15
2:15
And Jehovah God took the man and
1put him in the garden of Eden to
2work it and to
3keep it.
c.
Allowing man to have free choice
vv. 16-17
Gen. 2
:16
2:16
And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying,
aOf every tree of the garden you may eat freely,
Gen. 2
:17
2:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, of it you shall
1anot eat; for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely
2bdie.
4.
The third step — working God into man as life to be His complement
vv. 18-25
a.
Man, typifying God, needing to have a complement
vv. 18-20
Gen. 2
:18
2:18
And Jehovah God said, It is not
agood for the
1man to be alone; I will make him a
bhelper as his
2counterpart.
Gen. 2
:19
2:19
Now Jehovah God had formed
afrom the ground every animal of the field and every bird of heaven. And He brought
them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called any living animal, that was its name.
Gen. 2
:20
2:20
And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of heaven and to every animal of the field, but for Adam there was
1not found a helper as his counterpart.
b.
Man gaining a complement in and by life
vv. 21-25
Gen. 2
:21
2:21
And Jehovah God caused a
1adeep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and He took one of his
2ribs and closed up the flesh in its place.
Gen. 2
:22
2:22
And Jehovah God
1abuilt the rib, which He had taken from the man, into a
2woman and
3brought her to the man.
Gen. 2
:23
2:23
And the man said,
This time this is
abone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh;
This one shall be called
1Woman Because
bout of
2Man this one was taken.
Gen. 2
:24
2:24
Therefore a
aman shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and
bthey shall become one
1flesh.
Gen. 2
:25
2:25
1And both the man and his wife were
anaked and were not ashamed before each other.
