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Genesis 2 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:1 - And the heaven and the earth and all things in them were complete.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:2 - And on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work; and on the seventh day he took his rest from all the work which he had done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:3 - And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:4 - These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5 - In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:6 - But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:7 - And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:8 - And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9 - And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:10 - And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became four streams.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:11 - The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah where there is gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:12 - And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:13 - And the name of the second river is Gihon: this river goes round all the land of Cush.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:14 - And the name of the third river is Tigris, which goes to the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:15 - And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:16 - And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:17 - But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:18 - And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:19 - And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:20 - And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field; but Adam had no one like himself as a help.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:21 - And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:22 - And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:23 - And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:24 - For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:25 - And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Genesis Chapter 2 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras