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The Creation of Man and Woman

¹ Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all ^(C1)their hosts.² By ^(C1)the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and ^(C2)He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.³ Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created ^(F1)and made.

^4 (F1)(C1)This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in ^(C2)the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.^5 (C1)Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, ^(C2)for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to ^(F1)cultivate the ground.⁶ But a ^(F1)mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole ^(F2)surface of the ground.⁷ Then the LORD God formed man of ^(C1)dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and ^(C2)man became a living ^(F1)being.⁸ The LORD God planted a ^(C1)garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.⁹ Out of the ground the LORD God caused to grow ^(C1)every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; ^(C2)the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰ Now a ^(C1)river ^(F1)flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four ^(F2)rivers.¹¹ The name of the first is Pishon; it ^(F1)flows around the whole land of ^(C1)Havilah, where there is gold.¹² The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there.¹³ The name of the second river is Gihon; it ^(F1)flows around the whole land of Cush.¹⁴ The name of the third river is ^(F1)(C1)Tigris; it ^(F2)flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the ^(F3)(C2)Euphrates.

¹⁵ Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.¹⁶ The LORD God ^(C1)commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;¹⁷ but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not ^(F1)eat, for in the day that you eat from it ^(C1)you will surely die."

¹⁸ Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; ^(C1)I will make him a helper ^(F1)suitable for him."^19 (C1)Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the ^(F1)sky, and ^(C2)brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.²⁰ The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the ^(F1)sky, and to every beast of the field, but for ^(F2)Adam there was not found ^(C1)a helper ^(F3)suitable for him.²¹ So the LORD God caused a ^(C1)deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.²² The LORD God ^(F1)fashioned into a woman ^(C1)the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.²³ The man said,

"^(C1)This is now bone of my bones,
And flesh of my flesh;
^(F1)She shall be called ^(F2)Woman,
Because ^(F1)she was taken out of ^(F3)Man."