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^(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.

^(C1)Now no shrub of the field was yet on 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.

But a ^(F1)mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole ^(F2)surface of the ground.

Then the LORD God formed the man of ^(C1)dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the ^(C2)man became a living ^(F1)person.

The LORD God planted a ^(C1)garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.

Out of the ground the LORD God caused ^(C1)every tree to grow that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; ^(C2)the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Now a ^(C1)river ^(F1)flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four ^(F2)rivers.

The name of the first is Pishon; it ^(F1)flows around the whole land of ^(C1)Havilah, where there is gold.

The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there as well.

The name of the second river is Gihon; it ^(F1)flows around the whole land of Cush.

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.

Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and tend it.

The LORD God ^(C1)commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may freely eat;

but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not ^(F1)eat, for on the day that you eat from it ^(C1)you will certainly die."

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."

^(C1)And out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the 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.

The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field, but for ^(F1)Adam there was not found ^(C1)a helper ^(F2)suitable for him.

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.

And the LORD God ^(F1)fashioned into a woman ^(C1)the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

Then the man said, "^(C1)At last this is 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."

^(C1)For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

^(C1)And the man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.