1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host
of them. ² And on the seventh day God ended 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
sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work
which God created and made.
⁴ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth
when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the
earth and the heavens, ⁵ and every plant of the field before it was
in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the
LORD 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 the LORD
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 the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and
there he put the man whom he had formed. ⁹ And out of the
ground made the LORD 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 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 into four heads. ¹¹ The name of the first is
Pison: 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
Ethiopia. ¹⁴ And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it
which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is
Euphrates. ¹⁵ And the LORD God took the man, and put him into
the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. ¹⁶ And the LORD
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 the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should
be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. ¹⁹ And out of the
ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every
fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would
call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that
was the name thereof. ²⁰ And Adam gave names to all cattle, and
to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam
there was not found an help meet for him. ²¹ And the LORD God
caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took
one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; ²² and the
rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman,
and brought her unto the man. ²³ And Adam 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.