{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "genesis", "chapter": 2 }, "data": { "n": 2, "bookSlug": "genesis", "bookCode": "GEN", "refId": "", "title": "The Garden of Eden: man formed from the dust + the four rivers and the two trees", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "GEN-2:1", "verseRef": "Gen.2.1", "text": "And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "GEN-2:2", "verseRef": "Gen.2.2", "text": "And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "GEN-2:3", "verseRef": "Gen.2.3", "text": "And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "GEN-2:4", "verseRef": "Gen.2.4", "text": "These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "GEN-2:5", "verseRef": "Gen.2.5", "text": "And no plant 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 not a man to till the ground;" },{ "n": 6, "refId": "GEN-2:6", "verseRef": "Gen.2.6", "text": "but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "GEN-2:7", "verseRef": "Gen.2.7", "text": "And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "GEN-2:8", "verseRef": "Gen.2.8", "text": "And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "GEN-2:9", "verseRef": "Gen.2.9", "text": "And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "GEN-2:10", "verseRef": "Gen.2.10", "text": "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "GEN-2:11", "verseRef": "Gen.2.11", "text": "The name of the first is Pishon: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;" },{ "n": 12, "refId": "GEN-2:12", "verseRef": "Gen.2.12", "text": "and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "GEN-2:13", "verseRef": "Gen.2.13", "text": "And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "GEN-2:14", "verseRef": "Gen.2.14", "text": "And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth in front of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "GEN-2:15", "verseRef": "Gen.2.15", "text": "And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "GEN-2:16", "verseRef": "Gen.2.16", "text": "And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:" },{ "n": 17, "refId": "GEN-2:17", "verseRef": "Gen.2.17", "text": "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 surely die." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "GEN-2:18", "verseRef": "Gen.2.18", "text": "And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "GEN-2:19", "verseRef": "Gen.2.19", "text": "And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was the name thereof." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "GEN-2:20", "verseRef": "Gen.2.20", "text": "And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "GEN-2:21", "verseRef": "Gen.2.21", "text": "And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof:" },{ "n": 22, "refId": "GEN-2:22", "verseRef": "Gen.2.22", "text": "and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "GEN-2:23", "verseRef": "Gen.2.23", "text": "And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "GEN-2:24", "verseRef": "Gen.2.24", "text": "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "GEN-2:25", "verseRef": "Gen.2.25", "text": "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/genesis/chapters/2", "book": "/v1/library/books/genesis/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/genesis/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }