Genesis 2
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
2 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation.
4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created.
Another Account of the Creation
[a]In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; 6 but a mist[b] went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground— 7 then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made 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.
10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. 11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Hav′ilah, where there is gold; 12 and the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphra′tes.
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”
18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” 19 So out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; 22 and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,
“This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,[c]
because she was taken out of Man.”[d]
24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
Footnotes
- 2.4b ff This account of the state of the world at the beginning, which introduces the story of the first sin, comes from a different and earlier source and is composed in a very different style. There is nothing in these early chapters that commits us to any particular scientific view of the origins of the world or man, or that would exclude the evolution hypothesis.
- Genesis 2:6 Or flood
- Genesis 2:23 Heb ishshah
- Genesis 2:23 Heb ish
1 Mosebog 2
Bibelen på hverdagsdansk
2 På den måde blev himlen og jorden og alt liv skabt. 2 Skaberværket var nu fuldført, og Gud hvilede på den syvende dag. 3 Han velsignede den og indviede den til hviledag.
Hvordan Gud skaber de to første mennesker
4 Da Gud skabte verden, 5 var der først ingen grønne planter eller buske på jorden, for han havde endnu ikke ladet det regne. Der var heller ingen mennesker til at dyrke jorden. 6 Men der vældede vand frem af jorden og vandede dens overflade.
7 Så formede Gud et menneske af jorden og blæste livsånde i dets næsebor, så det blev et levende væsen. 8 Gud havde plantet en have i Eden mod øst, og dér anbragte han nu det menneske, som han havde skabt. 9 Gud havde plantet alle slags smukke træer i haven, træer med en mængde frugt. Midt i haven stod livets træ og træet, der giver kendskab til både godt og ondt. 10 I Eden udsprang en flod, som vandede haven. Uden for haven delte den sig i fire mindre floder. 11 Den første flod hedder Pishon. Den bugter sig omkring landet Havila, hvor der findes guld 12 af fin kvalitet samt bedellium[a] og ædelsten. 13 Den anden flod kaldes Gihon. Den løber gennem landet Kush. 14 Den tredje flod kaldes Tigris. Den løber langs med Assyriens østgrænse. Den fjerde flod kaldes Eufrat.
15 Gud satte mennesket, Adam, i Edens have, for at han skulle passe den, 16-17 og han sagde til ham: „Du må spise frugten fra alle træerne i haven undtagen det træ, som giver kendskab til både godt og ondt. Hvis du spiser af den frugt, skal du dø.”
18 Derpå sagde Gud: „Det er ikke godt for Adam at være alene. Jeg vil give ham en livsledsager,[b] der passer til ham.” 19 Gud havde af jorden formet alle slags dyr og fugle. Dem førte han nu hen til Adam for at se, hvad han ville kalde dem; og hvad Adam kaldte dem, blev deres navn. 20 Adam navngav alle fuglene og de vilde og tamme dyr, men han fandt ikke nogen passende ledsager iblandt dem. 21 Derfor lod Gud Adam falde i en dyb søvn. Mens han sov, tog Gud et af hans ribben og lukkede stedet til igen med kød. 22 Af ribbenet byggede han en kvinde og førte hende hen til Adam.
23 „Ja!” udbrød Adam. „Det er knogler af mine knogler og kød af mit kød! Hun skal hedde kvinde, for hun er taget ud af manden.[c]” 24 Derfor skal en mand forlade sin far og mor og knytte sig nært til sin kone, og de to skal blive ét.
25 Adam og hans kone var begge nøgne, men de skammede sig ikke over deres nøgenhed.
Footnotes
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