Proverbs 2:1Bible in Basic English

Genesis 2:15

And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.

Genesis 2:16

And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:

Genesis 2:17

But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.

Genesis 2:22

And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.

Genesis 2:23

And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.