Genesis 2:4-25

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An Overview of references to Genesis 2:4-25

Creation Record

the Bible's second account of creation — a Creation Record

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With chapter 3, this is the second of the Bible's Creation Records. See Comparing the two accounts of the Creation in Genesis.
See also The Fourth Conversation — Creating Man.
This passage was referenced here (2.4.4) in our response to the AACE discussion questions.

the "day" of creation

2:4 — Discussion for and against reading literal "days" in Genesis 1, or the "day" of Genesis 2:4

"not a man to till the ground"

v 5 — "not a man to till the ground" taken as evidence against some explanations of human origins

the watering of the land

v 6 — Mist, inundation or irrigation in Genesis 2:6

the man formed

v 7 — Created, Formed and Made, Formed from the dust, The Breath of Life, and the question of where the man was formed.

the Geography

vv 8-13 — the Four Rivers. See Geography of Eden for Glenn Morton’s speculative literal interpretation.

the Two Trees

The Tree of Life and The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

the man taken to the garden

Genesis 2:15

"thou shalt surely die"

vv 16-17 — "Thou shalt not eat thereof..."; "thou shalt surely die"

Animals and birds created

vv 18-20 — All the animals and birds are created and brought to the man, but no acceptable partner is found for him.
Sequence of events in the narrative; concordist translations

Woman made for Man

vv 21-22 — Adam's Deep Sleep; the woman "fashioned" or "built"

Jesus' reference to the man's sleep

2:24 — referred to in the New Testament.

— an example of non-literal language: see Problems with Literal Readings of Genesis 2:4-3:24