1 The heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he
rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 God
blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all
his work which he had created and made.
4 This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth
when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and the
heavens. 5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the
field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the
earth. There was not a man to till the ground, 6 but a mist went up from
the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 Yahweh God
formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a living soul. 8 Yahweh God planted a
garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to
the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the
garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10 A river went
out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became
four heads. 11 The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which
flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 and the
gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.
13 The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows
through the whole land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is
Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river
is the Euphrates. 15 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden
of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 16 Yahweh God commanded the man,
saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat: 17 but of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the
day that you eat of it you will surely die.”
18 Yahweh God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will
make him a helper suitable for him.” 19 Out of the ground Yahweh God
formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them
to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every
living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all cattle,
and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man
there was not found a helper suitable for him. 21 Yahweh God caused a deep
sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and
closed up the flesh in its place. 22 He made the rib, which Yahweh God had
taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man. 23 The man
said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be
called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” 24 Therefore a man will
leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will
be one flesh. 25 They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not
ashamed.
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