Genesis 2:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.

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  • Gen 2:18 : 18 The LORD God said,“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”

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  • Gen 2:18-19
    2 verses
    87%

    18The LORD God said,“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”

    19The LORD God formed out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird 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.

  • Gen 2:21-25
    5 verses
    76%

    21So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man’s side and closed up the place with flesh.

    22Then the LORD God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

    23Then the man said,“This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

    24That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

    25The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.

  • Gen 3:20-22
    3 verses
    74%

    20The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

    21The LORD God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

    22And the LORD God said,“Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

  • Gen 5:1-2
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    73%

    1From Adam to Noah This is the record of the family line of Adam.When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

    2He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them“humankind.”

  • Gen 2:15
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    15The LORD God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

  • Gen 1:24-30
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    24God said,“Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.

    25God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

    26Then God said,“Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”

    27God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

    28God blessed them and said to them,“Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”

    29Then God said,“I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

    30And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground– everything that has the breath of life in it– I give every green plant for food.” It was so.

  • 1 Tim 2:13-14
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    13For Adam was formed first and then Eve.

    14And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, because she was fully deceived, fell into transgression.

  • Gen 2:5
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    5Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

  • Gen 2:7-9
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    7The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

    8The LORD God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

    9The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food.(Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)

  • 1 Cor 11:9
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    9Neither was man created for the sake of woman, but woman for man.

  • Gen 4:1
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    1The Story of Cain and Abel Now the man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said,“I have created a man just as the LORD did!”

  • Gen 1:20-22
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    20God said,“Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

    21God created the great sea creatures and every living and moving thing with which the water swarmed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good.

    22God blessed them and said,“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

  • Ps 8:7
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    7including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,

  • Gen 3:12
    65%

    12The man said,“The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”

  • Ps 148:10
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    10you animals and all you cattle, you creeping things and birds,

  • Gen 3:17
    65%

    17But to Adam he said,“Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

  • Gen 4:25
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    25And Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth, saying,“God has given me another child in place of Abel because Cain killed him.”

  • Gen 6:20
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    20Of the birds after their kinds, and of the cattle after their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you so you can keep them alive.

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

  • Deut 4:17
    65%

    17any kind of land animal, any bird that flies in the sky,

  • Eccl 3:19
    65%

    19For the fate of humans and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting.

  • Gen 3:9
    65%

    9But the LORD God called to the man and said to him,“Where are you?”