Old Testament

And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. < Genesis 2:11 | > Genesis 2:13 Reflection Genesis 2:12 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and God’s patient rule over human history. This verse may be brief, but […]

And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. < Genesis 2:12 | > Genesis 2:14 Reflection Genesis 2:13 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and God’s patient rule over human history. This […]

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. < Genesis 2:14 | > Genesis 2:16 Reflection Genesis 2:15 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and God’s patient rule over human […]

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: < Genesis 2:15 | > Genesis 2:17 Reflection Genesis 2:16 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and God’s patient rule over human history. This verse may […]

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. < Genesis 2:16 | > Genesis 2:18 Reflection Genesis 2:17 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, […]

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. < Genesis 2:17 | > Genesis 2:19 Reflection Genesis 2:18 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and God’s patient rule […]

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. < Genesis 2:18 | > Genesis 2:20 Reflection Genesis 2:19 sits […]

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. < Genesis 2:1 | > Genesis 2:3 Reflection Genesis 2:2 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, […]

And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. < Genesis 2:19 | > Genesis 2:21 Reflection Genesis 2:20 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention […]

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; < Genesis 2:20 | > Genesis 2:22 Reflection Genesis 2:21 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, […]

And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. < Genesis 2:21 | > Genesis 2:23 Reflection Genesis 2:22 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and God’s patient rule over human history. […]

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. < Genesis 2:22 | > Genesis 2:24 Reflection Genesis 2:23 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and […]

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. < Genesis 2:23 | > Genesis 2:25 Reflection Genesis 2:24 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and God’s patient rule over human […]

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. < Genesis 2:24 | > Genesis 3:1 Reflection Genesis 2:25 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and God’s patient rule over human history. This verse may be brief, but its […]

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. < Genesis 2:2 | > Genesis 2:4 Reflection Genesis 2:3 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and God’s patient […]

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, < Genesis 2:3 | > Genesis 2:5 Reflection Genesis 2:4 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, […]

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. < Genesis 2:4 | > Genesis 2:6 Reflection Genesis 2:5 sits […]

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. < Genesis 2:5 | > Genesis 2:7 Reflection Genesis 2:6 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and God’s patient rule over human history. This verse may be […]

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. < Genesis 2:6 | > Genesis 2:8 Reflection Genesis 2:7 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and […]

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. < Genesis 2:7 | > Genesis 2:9 Reflection Genesis 2:8 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and God’s patient rule over human history. This […]

And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. < Genesis 2:8 | > Genesis 2:10 Reflection Genesis 2:9 sits within […]

And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar. < Genesis 19:38 | > Genesis 20:2 Reflection Genesis 20:1 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and God’s patient rule over human history. This verse […]

And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing? < Genesis 20:9 | > Genesis 20:11 Reflection Genesis 20:10 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and God’s patient rule over human history. This verse may be brief, but its […]

And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake. < Genesis 20:10 | > Genesis 20:12 Reflection Genesis 20:11 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and God’s patient […]

And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. < Genesis 20:11 | > Genesis 20:13 Reflection Genesis 20:12 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and God’s […]

And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother. < Genesis 20:12 | > Genesis 20:14 Reflection Genesis 20:13 sits […]

And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. < Genesis 20:13 | > Genesis 20:15 Reflection Genesis 20:14 sits within Genesis, the book of beginnings, where Scripture often draws attention to creation, covenant, family, promise, and God’s patient rule over human history. […]