[1] And the heaven and the earth and all things in them were complete. [2]
And on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work; and on the
seventh day he took his rest from all the work which he had done. [3] And
God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that
day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done. [4]
These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.
[5] In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants
of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had
not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land. [6]
But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land. [7]
And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him
the breath of life: and man became a living soul. [8] And the Lord God made
a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.
[9] And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the
eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life
and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. [10] And a river went out
of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became
four streams. [11] The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about
all the 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: this river goes round all the land of Cush. [14] And
the name of the third river is Tigris, which goes to the east of Assyria.
And the fourth river is Euphrates. [15] And the Lord God took the man and
put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it. [16]
And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the
fruit of every tree of the garden: [17] But of the fruit of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take
of it, death will certainly come to you. [18] And the Lord God said, It is
not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a
help to him [19] And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the
field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names
he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was
its name. [20] And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the
air and to every beast of the field; but Adam had no one like himself as a
help. [21] And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of
the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again
in its place: [22] And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man
he made into a woman, and took her to the man. [23] And the man said, This
is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because
she was taken out of Man. [24] For this cause will a man go away from his
father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one
flesh. [25] And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no
sense of shame.