| 1 And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of
them. 2 And 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 And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he
rested from all his work which God had created and made.
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were
created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven. 5 And no plant
of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung
up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was
not a man to till the ground; 6 but there went up a mist from the earth,
and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And Jehovah God formed man of
the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living soul. 8 And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward,
in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the
ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree 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 And a river went out of Eden to
water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.
11 The name of the first is Pishon: that is it which compasseth the whole
land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 and the gold of that land is
good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. 13 And the name of the second
river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush.
14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth in
front of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15 And Jehovah
God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep
it. 16 And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the
garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die.
18 And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I
will make him a help meet for him. 19 And out of the ground Jehovah God
formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought
them unto the man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man
called every living creature, that was the name thereof. 20 And the man
gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast
of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him. 21 And
Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he
took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof: 22 and the
rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought
her unto the man. 23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and
flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of
Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall
cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 25 And they were both
naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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