Genesis 2:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 15:12 : 12 When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.
  • 1 Sam 26:12 : 12 So David took the spear and the jug of water by Saul’s head, and they got out of there. No one saw them or was aware of their presence or woke up. All of them were asleep, for the LORD had caused a deep sleep to fall on them.
  • Job 4:13 : 13 In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,
  • Job 33:15 : 15 In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.
  • Dan 8:18 : 18 As he spoke with me, I fell into a trance with my face to the ground. But he touched me and stood me upright.
  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.

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    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 2:18-20
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    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.

    20So 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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    15The LORD God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

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    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.

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    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.”

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