Genesis 2

Question 1

Genesis 2:1

Answer 1

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

Question 2

Genesis 2:2

Answer 2

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

Question 3

Genesis 2:3

Answer 3

And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

Question 4

Genesis 2:4

Answer 4

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens-

Question 5

Genesis 2:5

Answer 5

and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground,

Question 6

Genesis 2:6

Answer 6

but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground-

Question 7

Genesis 2:7

Answer 7

the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Question 8

Genesis 2:8

Answer 8

Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.

Question 9

Genesis 2:9

Answer 9

And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground–trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Question 10

Genesis 2:10

Answer 10

A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.

Question 11

Genesis 2:11

Answer 11

The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Question 12

Genesis 2:12

Answer 12

(The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.)

Question 13

Genesis 2:13

Answer 13

The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.

Question 14

Genesis 2:14

Answer 14

The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Question 15

Genesis 2:15

Answer 15

The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

Question 16

Genesis 2:16

Answer 16

And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;

Question 17

Genesis 2:17

Answer 17

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”

Question 18

Genesis 2:18

Answer 18

The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

Question 19

Genesis 2:19

Answer 19

Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

Question 20

Genesis 2:20

Answer 20

So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.

Question 21

Genesis 2:21

Answer 21

So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh.

Question 22

Genesis 2:22

Answer 22

Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

Question 23

Genesis 2:23

Answer 23

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman, ‘ for she was taken out of man.”

Question 24

Genesis 2:24

Answer 24

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Question 25

Genesis 2:25

Answer 25

The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.