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16 The Lord God commanded the man: “You may freely eat from every tree of the garden, 17 but you are not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because you will certainly die during the day that you eat from it.”

The Creation of the Woman

18 Later, the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make the woman[a] to be an authority[b] corresponding[c] to him.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:18 The Heb. lacks the woman
  2. Genesis 2:18 Or make a strength; or make a power
  3. Genesis 2:18 Or equal