In chapter 2 of Genesis, we get a closer look at how God created humanity. First we see a name change, now instead of the generic name of God, we have the Lord God, who is the subject of this chapter. He formed man out of the dust of the ground and breathed life into him, and he became a living soul. The Lord God placed the man into the garden which was eastward in Eden. Then the Lord God gave the man a job. He was to dress and keep the garden, in other words he was to work it, serve it, protect and preserve it. He was also commanded to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, or he will die. Even though everything in this place was good, there was something not good, "It is not good that the man should be alone," so the Lord God made a help mate for Adam. He created her from the rib of man, and when the Lord God presented her to the man, he broke out in poetry, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man." Then Moses interjects a statement, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh." In the New Testament, the apostle Paul in Ephesians 5, quotes this verse and says, "This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church." Since Adam and Eve were one, like no other couple ever have been, chapter two ends, "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."
