Genesis 2:21

Geneva Bible (1560)

Therefore the Lord God caused an heauie sleepe to fall vpon the man, and he slept: and he tooke one of his ribbes, & closed vp the flesh in steade thereof.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 15:12 : 12 And when the sunne went downe, there fell an heauie sleepe vpon Abram: and loe, a very fearefull darkenes fell vpon him.
  • 1 Sam 26:12 : 12 So Dauid tooke the speare and the pot of water from Sauls head, and they gate them away, and no man saw it, nor marked it, neither did any awake, but they were all asleepe: for the Lorde had sent a dead sleepe vpon them.
  • Job 4:13 : 13 In the thoughtes of ye visions of the night, when sleepe falleth on men,
  • Job 33:15 : 15 In dreames and visions of the night, when sleepe falleth vpon men, and they sleepe vpon their beds,
  • Dan 8:18 : 18 Nowe as he was speaking vnto me, I being a sleepe fell on my face to the ground: but he touched me, and set me vp in my place.
  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Slouthfulnes causeth to fall asleepe, and a deceitfull person shall be affamished.

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    22And the ribbe which the Lorde God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her to the man.

    23Then the man said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shalbe called woman, because she was taken out of man.

    24Therefore shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

    25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

  • Gen 2:18-20
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    18Also the Lorde God saide, It is not good that the man should be himself alone: I wil make him an helpe meete for him.

    19So the Lorde God formed of the earth euery beast of the fielde, and euery foule of the heauen, and brought them vnto the man to see howe he would call them: for howsoeuer the man named the liuing creature, so was the name thereof.

    20The man therefore gaue names vnto all cattell, and to the foule of the heauen, and to euery beast of the fielde: but for Adam founde he not an helpe meete for him.

  • Gen 2:15-16
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    15Then the Lord God tooke the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, that he might dresse it and keepe it.

    16And the Lorde God commaunded the man, saying, Thou shalt eate freely of euery tree of the garden,

  • Gen 3:20-23
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    20(And the man called his wiues name Heuah, because she was the mother of all liuing)

    21Vnto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coates of skinnes, and clothed them.

    22And the Lord God said, Beholde, the man is become as one of vs, to knowe good and euill; nowe lest he put foorth his hand, and take also of ye tree of life & eate & liue for euer,

    23Therefore the Lord God sent him foorth from the garden of Eden, to till ye earth, whence he was taken.

  • Gen 2:7-9
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    7The Lord God also made the man of the dust of the grounde, and breathed in his face breath of life, and the man was a liuing soule.

    8And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.

    9(For out of the grounde made the Lorde God to growe euery tree pleasant to the sight, and good for meate: the tree of life also in the middes of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and of euill.

  • Gen 5:1-2
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    1This is the booke of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created Adam, in the likenes of God made he him,

    2Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the day that they were created.

  • Gen 1:26-27
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    26Furthermore God said, Let vs make man in our image according to our likenes, and let them rule ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the heauen, and ouer the beastes, and ouer all the earth, and ouer euery thing that creepeth and moueth on the earth.

    27Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them male and female.

  • 1 Tim 2:13-14
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    13For Adam was first formed, then Eue.

    14And Adam was not deceiued, but the woman was deceiued, and was in the transgression.

  • Gen 4:1
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    1Afterwarde the man knewe Heuah his wife, which conceiued and bare Kain, and said, I haue obteined a man by the Lord.

  • Gen 3:11-13
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    11And he saide, Who tolde thee, that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eate?

    12Then the man saide, The woman which thou gauest to be with me, she gaue me of the tree, and I did eate.

    13And the Lorde God saide to the woman, Why hast thou done this? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eate.

  • Matt 19:4-5
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    4And he answered & sayd vnto them, Haue ye not read, that hee which made them at the beginning, made them male and female,

    5And sayd, For this cause, shal a man leaue father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife, and they which were two shalbe one flesh.

  • Gen 3:6-9
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    6So the woman (seeing that the tree was good for meate, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to get knowledge) tooke of the fruite thereof, and did eate, & gaue also to her husband with her, and he did eate.

    7Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knewe that they were naked, and they sewed figge tree leaues together, and made them selues breeches.

    8Afterward they heard the voyce of the Lord God walking in the garden in the coole of the day, and the man & his wife hid themselues from the presence of the Lorde God among the trees of the garden.

    9But the Lord God called to the man, and said vnto him, Where art thou?

  • Eph 5:31
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    31For this cause shal a man leaue father and mother, and shall cleaue to his wife, and they twaine shalbe one flesh.

  • Gen 4:25
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    25And Adam knewe his wife againe, and she bare a sonne, and she called his name Sheth: for God, saide she, hath appointed me another seede for Habel, because Kain slewe him.

  • Gen 2:2
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    2For in the seuenth day GOD ended his worke which he had made, and the seuenth day he rested from al his worke, which he had made.

  • Mark 10:6-7
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    6But at the beginning of the creation God made them male and female:

    7For this cause shall man leaue his father and mother, and cleaue vnto his wife.

  • Gen 3:17
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    17Also to Adam he said, Because thou hast obeyed the voyce of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, (whereof I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eate of it) cursed is the earth for thy sake: in sorowe shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy life.

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    15In dreames and visions of the night, when sleepe falleth vpon men, and they sleepe vpon their beds,

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    4These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lorde God made the earth and the heauens,

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    8For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.

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