Genesis 2:15-17
God gives man purposeful work and a defining command that reveals the necessity of obedience.
15 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
16 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;
17 but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
God gives man purposeful work and a defining command that reveals the necessity of obedience.
To establish man's God-given responsibility within creation and to introduce the command that defines the boundary of obedience and the consequence of disobedience.
The LORD God Forms Man, Establishes Covenant Order, and Institutes Marriage
The LORD God forms humanity for covenantal life under His word, places man in sacred stewardship, provides woman as his fitting companion, and establishes marriage as part of His good created order.