Genesis 2 for Pidgin: Read how God rest after creation, make man from sand, and create woman from man rib for Garden of Eden.
📖 Genesis 2:1-25 in Pidgin English
1. So God finish work wey Him dey do. Heaven and earth and everything inside dem complete.
2. On di seventh day, God rest from all di work wey Him don do.
3. God bless di seventh day and make am holy, because na di day wey Him rest from all Him creation work.
4. This na di story of how God take create heaven and earth.
5. At that time, no bush don grow for land, no plant don spring up, because God never send rain and no man dey to work di ground.
6. But water dey come up from ground to wet di whole surface of di earth.
7. Then God form man from sand of di ground. E breathe life into man nose and man come become living being.
8. God plant garden for one place wey dem dey call Eden, and E put di man wey E form there.
9. God make all kind trees grow from di ground — trees wey fine, sweet to chop. For di middle of di garden, tree of life and tree of knowledge of good and bad dey.
10. One river dey flow from Eden to water di garden, and e divide into four rivers.
11. Di first one na Pishon — e pass through di land of Havilah, wey get gold.
12. Di gold for there good well-well, bdellium and onyx stone dey there too.
13. Di second river na Gihon — e pass through di land of Cush.
14. Di third one na Tigris — e flow east of Assyria. Di fourth na Euphrates.
15. God put di man for di Garden of Eden make e take care of am and work inside am.
16. God command di man say, “You fit chop any tree for di garden as you like,
17. But di tree of knowledge of good and bad, no chop am. If you chop am, you go die.”
18. God talk again, “E no good make man dey alone. I go make helper for am, wey go follow am well.”
19. God form all animals and birds from ground and bring dem to di man make e name dem. Any name wey di man give dem, na dat name dem get.
20. Di man name all animals and birds, but no helper wey match am dey among dem.
21. So God make di man sleep deep. E remove one of him ribs and close di place with flesh.
22. God take di rib wey e remove from man, form woman, and bring her to di man.
23. Di man happy say, “This one now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. I go call am ‘woman’ because na from man she come.”
24. Because of this, man go leave him papa and mama and join with him wife, and dem go become one.
25. Di man and him wife naked but dem no shame.
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