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.