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¹ THUS the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.² And on the sixth day God, finished his works which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his works which he had made.³ So God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because in it he had rested from all his works 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 heavens and the earth.⁵ And all the trees of the field were not yet in the ground, and every herb of the field had not 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 powerful spring gushed out of the earth, and watered all the face of the ground.⁷ And the LORD God formed Adam out of the soil of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

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 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 And a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it divided and became into four heads.¹¹ The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which encircles the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;¹² And the gold of that land is good; there is also beryllium and the onyx stone.¹³ And the name of the second river is Gihon, the one which encircles the whole land of Ethiopia.¹⁴ And the name of the third river is Deklat (Tigris); it is the one which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.¹⁵ And the LORD God took the man, and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and to keep it.

¹⁶ And the LORD 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; for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

¹⁸ Then the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper who is like 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 to Adam to see what he would call them; and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was its name.²⁰ And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to all fowl of the air, and to all wild beasts; but for Adam there was not found a helper who was equal to him.

²¹ So 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 place with flesh in its stead;²² And of the rib which the LORD God had taken from Adam he made a woman, and brought her to Adam.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, Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.