[1] Thus 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 done, and he
rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. [3] So God
blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all
his work which he had done in creation. [4] 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, [5] when no plant of the field was yet
in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up--for the LORD God
had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the
ground; [6] but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of
the ground-- [7] then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living
being. [8] And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and
there he put the man whom he had formed. [9] And out of the ground the LORD
God made 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] A river flowed out of Eden to water the
garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. [11] The name of the
first is Pishon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of
Havilah, where there is gold; [12] and the gold of that land is good;
bdellium and onyx stone are there. [13] The name of the second river is
Gihon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Cush. [14] And
the name of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the
fourth river is the Euphrates. [15] The LORD God took the man and put him
in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. [16] And the LORD God
commanded the man, saying, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;
[17] but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat,
for in the day that you eat of it you shall die." [18] Then the LORD God
said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a
helper fit for him." [19] So out of the ground the LORD God formed every
beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man
to see what he would call them; and 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 air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man
there was not found a helper fit for him. [21] So the LORD God caused a
deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs
and closed up its place with flesh; [22] and the rib which the LORD God had
taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. [23]
Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." [24]
Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife,
and they become one flesh. [25] And the man and his wife were both naked,
and were not ashamed.