Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of
them. And 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. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because
on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
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.
When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small
plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not
caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the
ground, and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the
whole face of the ground—then the LORD God formed the man of dust
from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,
and the man became a living creature. And the LORD God planted a
garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had
formed. And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every
tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of
life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil.
A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it
divided and became four rivers. The name of the first is the
Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah,
where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good; bdellium
and onyx stone are there. The name of the second river is the
Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. And
the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of
Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to
work it and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying,
“You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 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 surely die.”
Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be
alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Now out of the ground
the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of
the heavens 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. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of
the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was
not found a helper fit for him. 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. And the rib that the LORD God had
taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
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.”
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and
hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man
and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
