Genesis 2:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place.

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  • Gen 15:12 : 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
  • 1 Sam 26:12 : 12 So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head, and they departed, and no man saw it or knew it or awoke, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen upon them.
  • Job 4:13 : 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
  • Job 33:15 : 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
  • Dan 8:18 : 18 Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.
  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

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    22And with the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, He made a woman and brought her to the man.

    23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

    24Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave 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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    18And the LORD God said, It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.

    19And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air; and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: and whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.

    20And Adam gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.

  • Gen 2:15-16
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    15And the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.

    16And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

  • Gen 3:20-23
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    20And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

    21Also, for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.

    22Then the LORD God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever:

    23Therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.

  • Gen 2:7-9
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    7And the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

    8And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.

    9And out of the ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

  • Gen 5:1-2
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    1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God;

    2Male and female He created them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

  • Gen 1:26-27
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    26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

    27So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

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    13For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

    14And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

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    1And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

  • Gen 3:11-13
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    11And He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?

    12And the man said, The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

    13And the LORD God said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.

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    4And he answered and said to them, Have you not read that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female,

    5And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?

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    6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of the fruit and ate, and gave also to her husband with her; and he ate.

    7Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

    8And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

    9Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you?

  • Eph 5:31
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    31For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

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    25And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, has appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

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    2And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.

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

    7For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

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    17Then to Adam He said, Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

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    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

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

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

    9Nor was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.