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창세기 2:4b–7 ESV

These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

The New Bible Commentary (2:4–3:24 The Garden of Eden)

2:4–3:24 The Garden of Eden

Why, if the world was created very good (1:31), is there so much pain and suffering, anger and hatred in it? This story explains the origin and effects of sin in a simple yet profound way. It starts by describing the idyllic existence of the first human couple, thereby outlining God’s pattern for relations between the sexes. It then tells how one apparently minor act of disobedience upset everything and led to mankind’s expulsion from paradise.

The LORD God (2:4) is a phrase common in chs. 2–3, but it is hardly used elsewhere in the OT. It sums up two ideas that are important in these chapters—that God is both mankind’s Creator (‘God’ is the term used in ch. 1) and his friend or covenant partner (the LORD, or Yahweh, is God’s personal name revealed only to Israel; Ex. 3:14; 6:3).