Genesis 2:4-25

theme
This section offers more detail of the sixth day of creation (1:24-31). This telling focuses on the creation of humans, their intended purpose, and their relationship to each other as man and woman.

key verses
2:7, 22 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… Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

related verses
Eph 5:31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.