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Genesis 2:17-19
New Catholic Bible
Genesis 2:17-19
New Catholic Bible
17 but you must never eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you were to eat from it, you would surely die.”
18 [a]And the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.[b] I wish to make another creature who will be like him.”
19 The Lord God therefore formed every sort of wild animal and all the birds of the air, and he brought them before the man to see what he would name them.[c] Whatever the man called each living creature, that was the name that it would bear.
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- Genesis 2:18 This is the only full account of the creation of woman in ancient Near Eastern literature.
- Genesis 2:18 Not good . . . to be alone: without female companionship and a partner in reproduction, the man could not fully realize his humanity.
- Genesis 2:19 Name them: this was the man’s first act of dominion over the creatures around him.
