Genesis 2:4-25

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An Overview of references to Genesis 2:4-25

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 — also a note from the Jewish Study Bible re where the division between the two narratives is.

"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 7Created, 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

vv. 9,17 — The Tree of Life and The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

the man put in the garden

v 15 — the man, made outside the garden, is taken to it

"thou shalt surely die"

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

Was God lying?

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; translators' efforts to harmonise the two Genesis creation narratives ("concordist" translations)

Woman made for Man

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

Jesus' reference to the man's sleep

2:24 — referred to by the Lord Jesus in the New Testament.

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