Genesis 2:10-24 and Matthew 3:1-12 (NiV)

Genesis 2:10-24
10   A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.
11   The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12   (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.)
13   The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.
14   The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15   The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
16   And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;
17   but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
18   The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
19   Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
20   So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.  But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
21   So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.
22   Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23   The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
24   That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.


Matthews 3:1-12
1    In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea
2    and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
3    This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah:  “A voice of one calling in the wilderness,
‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’”
4    John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
5    People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan.
6    Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
7    But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
8    Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
9    And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
10  The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
11   “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
12   His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”










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