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​GENESIS 2

GENESIS 2:2
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​​​BY THE SEVENTH DAY GOD HAD FINISHED THE WORK HE HAD BEEN DOING; SO ON THE SEVENTH DAY HE RESTED FROM ALL HIS WORK.

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​​What does it mean for God to rest?
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GENESIS 2:2 ​ ​

​​​​BY THE SEVENTH DAY GOD HAD FINISHED THE WORK HE HAD BEEN DOING; SO ON THE SEVENTH DAY HE RESTED FROM ALL HIS WORK.

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​Why is the 7th day of rest important to God, and why does the Torah observe it on a different day than we do?
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  • The Hebrew translation of “work he had done” is” to make”; is there any significance here? What does it mean for God to rest, and how does this apply to us today? Is this symbolic for something, being that for the Jewish religion it's known as the Sabbath, a central point of God's Law. How is this important to God?​

​​GENESIS 2:3

​​THEN GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY AND MADE IT HOLY, BECAUSE ON IT HE RESTED FROM ALL THE WORK OF CREATING THAT HE HAD DONE.

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​Why does God make the 7th day both blessed, and Holy?
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Genesis 2:4

GENESIS 2:4

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​What is the significance with the combination of both names “Lord God”?
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Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

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​What is the difference between “man”, and a “living being”, as God Breathed “life: into man to become a “living being”, Could “man” refer to a caveman?​
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Genesis 2:8

​Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.

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​Where could Eden, and the Garden of Eden be located?
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Genesis 2:12

(The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin[a] and onyx are also there.)

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​Is gold, aromatic resin and onyx important to God, and if so, why?
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Genesis 2:16

And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;

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​Why does God first tell us we can eat from any tree in the garden, and then next tell us we “must not” eat from the one of Knowledge of good and evil?
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Genesis 2:17

​but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

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​Why did God plant both the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? More importantly, the one of evil?
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Genesis 2:17

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

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​What exactly does God mean when he warns us what will happen if we eat from the tree of knowledge and states “you will certainly die”?
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  • ​​The word “when” implies God knows we will eat from the tree at some point, and He has accounted for this in his plan.

Genesis 2:18

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

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​What exactly was God’s intentions for women in his plan when he calls them a “helper suitable”? Are they meant to be subservient to man, or an equal?​
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Genesis 2:19

Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. 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.

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​Why does God have man name all the living creatures?
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Genesis 2:21 

​So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[a] and then closed up the place with flesh.

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​Is there any significance that God took “man’s” rib, and not “Adam’s”
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​Genesis 2:22

Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[a] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

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​Why did God not create woman out of earth, as he did with man, but chose not to?
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Genesis 2:22

​Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[a] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

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Why did God make woman from Adam's rib, and not from the ground as he had done with man?​
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​Genesis 2:23

​The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
    for she was taken out of man.”

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​Why does God give Adam the task of naming “woman”
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Genesis 2:25

Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

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​​Why were Adam and Eve “both naked, and without shame”?
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