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# General Information:
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The rest of Genesis 2 tells about how God created people on the sixth day.
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# These were the events concerning the heavens and the earth
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"This is the account of the heavens and the earth" or "This is the story about the heavens and the earth." Possible meanings are 1) it is a summary of the events described in Genesis 1:1-2:3 or 2) it introduces the events described in Genesis 2. If possible, translate this so that people can understood it either way.
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# they were created
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"Yahweh God created them." In chapter 1 the writer always speaks of God as "God," but in chapter 2 he always speaks of God as "Yahweh God."
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# on the day that Yahweh God made
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"when Yahweh God created." The word "day" refers to the whole time span of the creation, not to just one particular day.
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# Yahweh
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This is the name of God that he revealed to his people in the Old Testament. See the translationWord page about Yahweh concerning how to translate this.
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# No bush of the field
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no shrubs growing in the wild that animals might eat
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# no plant of the field
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no leafy plants like vegetables or greens that both animals and humans can eat
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# to cultivate
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to do everything he needed to do so that the plants would grow well
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# mist
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Possible meanings are 1) something like dew or morning fog o 2) springs from underground streams.
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# the whole surface of the ground
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the entire earth
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/yahweh]] |