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Genesis 2

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1 And the heavens and the earth and all their host were finished.

2 And God had finished on the seventh day his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

3 And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, because that on it he rested from all his work which God had created in making it.

4 These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens,

5 and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah Elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.

6 But a mist went up from the earth, and moistened the whole surface of the ground.

7 And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul.

8 And Jehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and there put Man whom he had formed.

9 And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

10 And a river went out of Eden, to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four main streams.

11 The name of the one is Pison: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Havilah, where the gold is.

12 And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and the onyx stone are there.

13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Cush.

14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which flows forward toward Asshur. And the fourth river, that is Euphrates.

15 And Jehovah Elohim took Man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to till it and to guard it.

16 And Jehovah Elohim commanded Man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou shalt freely eat;

17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt certainly die.

18 And Jehovah Elohim said, It is not good that Man should be alone; I will make him a helpmate, his like.

19 And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim had formed every animal of the field and all fowl of the heavens, and brought [them] to Man, to see what he would call them; and whatever Man called each living soul, that was its name.

20 And Man gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but as for Adam, he found no helpmate, his like.

21 And Jehovah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Man; and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up flesh in its stead.

22 And Jehovah Elohim built the rib that he had taken from Man into a woman; and brought her to Man.

23 And Man said, This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: this shall be called Woman, because this was taken out of a Man.

24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

25 And they were both naked, Man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

   

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Tree of Knowledge

  

The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is a meaningful symbol in the Bible: When Eve ate its forbidden fruit and gave it to Adam it signaled the fall of mankind. But beyond simple disobedience, why was it so significant, and why was the outcome so drastic? The Tree of Knowledge represents spiritual thinking that is based on our human senses and intelligence -- things we figure out for ourselves instead of getting from the Lord. That might not sound like such a bad thing, and to some extent it's not for us in the modern age. But the people represented by Adam and Eve were celestial, which means they were in a state of love to the Lord and received wisdom from Him directly. From the love they felt they knew instantly what was right and true and what was wrong and false. But on some level they wanted to live from themselves, not from the Lord, and started pushing away the Lord's leading and trusting in their own intelligence instead symbolized by eating of the Tree of Knowledge.

In Genesis 6:5, this signifies no will for good, and so no perception of good and truth. (Arcana Coelestia 586)

In Psalm 7:4, this signifies that the Lord is justice, and there is no evil in Him. (The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms 257)

In Genesis 19:19, this signifies the danger of being at the same time in evil and good. (Arcana Coelestia 2426)

In Matthew 6:13, evil is rejected by the angels until only good remains with no idea of evil; and this with a kind of indignation that evil should be thought of when the Lord is thought of. (Arcana Coelestia 3605[2])

In Isaiah 5:20, this signifies that the distinction should be acknowledged. (Apocalypse Explained 526[7])