[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.
