1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their host.
2And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.
3And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all his work that God had created to do.
4These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and heaven.
5Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for Yahweh God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to work the ground.
6But a mist would rise from the earth and water the whole face of the ground.
7Then Yahweh God formed the man of dust from the ground, and he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
8And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9And Yahweh God caused to spring up from the ground every tree pleasant to the sight and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10Now a river went out from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four headwaters.
11The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.
13And the name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that winds through the whole land of Cush.
14And the name of the third river is Tigris; it is the one that flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15And Yahweh God took the man and set him in the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.
16And Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “From every tree of the garden you may surely eat,
17but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day you eat from it you shall surely die.”
18Then Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make for him a helper as his counterpart.”
19And Yahweh God formed from the ground every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
20And the man gave names to all the livestock and to the birds of the sky and to every beast of the field, but for the man there was found no helper as his counterpart.
21So Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his sides and closed up flesh in its place.
22And Yahweh God built the side that he had taken from the man into a woman, and he brought her to the man.
23Then the man said, “This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for from Man this one was taken.”
24Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
25And the two of them were naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.
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