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God makes a man and a woman

This is what happened when God made the heavens and the earth.

When the Lord God made the heavens and the earth, there were no plants or grasses growing on the earth.[a] That was because the Lord God had not sent any rain on the earth. Also, there was nobody to dig the soil so that plants would grow. But streams of water were coming up from the earth. The water made all the top of the ground wet.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:5 When we write Lord like this, it is a special name for God. Sometimes people write it as ‘Yahweh’, or as ‘Jehovah’. It means ‘I am who I am’. This shows that God has always been alive and he will always be alive.