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Trinity/After Pentecost · The Seventh Sunday after Trinity

Genesis 2:7-17

The Creation of Woman and Marriage

July 19, 2026

The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo
The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo, c. 1512Sistine Chapel, Vatican City
The most reproduced detail of the ceiling. The two hands do not touch, and the cloak behind God has been read for a century as the shape of a human brain.Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Malachi asks it as a rebuke; Genesis gives the making of the first one.MichelangeloSculptor first and painter under protest, who spent four years on his back on the Sistine ceiling and produced the most consequential painting in Europe.Sistine Chapel, Vatican CityThe pope's chapel, where conclaves are held, decorated by Perugino, Botticelli and Ghirlandaio before Michelangelo was ever asked.Sistine Chapel, Vatican City
Historic One-Year Lectionary
GospelMark 8:1-9Mk 8:1-9
EpistleRom. 6:19-23Rom 6:19-23
Old TestamentGen. 2:7-17Gn 2:7-17
PsalterPs. 33:1-11Ps 33:1-11

Overview & Insights

"Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh." (Genesis 2:24)

In the second creation account God observes that it is not good for the man to be alone and forms woman from his side as a fitting partner, establishing the one-flesh union of marriage.

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Commentary

Enduring Word Bible Commentary Genesis Chapter 2Enduring Word Bible Commentary Gn Chapter 2 Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse by verse evangelical commentary on the forming of the man, the garden, and the one prohibition.

Genesis 2:7 CommentariesGn 2:7 Commentaries BibleHub

Aggregates classic commentaries on the breath of life and the man of dust in one place.

Genesis 2 CommentaryGn 2 Commentary Precept Austin

A deep gathering of word studies and cross references worked verse by verse through the garden narrative.

Genesis 2, Expository NotesGn 2, Expository Notes StudyLight

Thomas Constable's expository notes on the creation of the man and the garden of Eden.

Background & Word Study

Genesis 2 in HebrewGn 2 in Hebrew Sefaria

The Hebrew text with English alongside and traditional Jewish commentary links for the garden narrative.

Genesis 2:7 Hebrew InterlinearGn 2:7 Hebrew Interlinear BibleHub

Hebrew word by word with parsing and Strong's numbers, useful for the wordplay of adam and adamah and the breath of life.

The Church Fathers

Commentary on Genesis 2 from the Church FathersCommentary on Gn 2 from the Church Fathers Catena

Patristic comment gathered verse by verse on the making of the man and the tree of knowledge.

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