Genesis 2

So the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts.

And by the seventh day God had completed his work that he had done, so he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it he rested from all his work of creating that God had done. \*

These {are} the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day {when} God made the earth and the heavens,

and every shrub of the field had not yet appeared on the earth, and every plant of the field had not yet sprung up, because God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to work the ground.

But mist came up from the earth and watered all of the surface of the ground. \*

Then God formed the man {out of} dust from the ground, and he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Now God had planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. \*

And God had made to grow from the ground every tree {that} is pleasant to the sight and good for food, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

And a river was going out from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four head{water}s. \*

The name of the first {is} Pishon. It winds through all of the land of Havilah, where gold {is}.

And the gold of that land {is} good. Bdellium and onyx stone {are} there. \*

And the name of the second river {is} Gihon. It winds through all of the land of Cush.

And the name of the third river {is} Tigris. It goes east of Asshur. And the fourth river {is} Euphrates. \*

And God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and tend it.

Then God commanded the man, saying, “From every tree of the garden you may freely eat,

but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because on the day you eat from it you will surely die.” \*

Then God said, “{It is} not good {for} the man to be alone. I will make a suitable helper for him.”

Now God had formed from the ground every living thing of the field and every bird of the sky. So he brought {them} to the man to see what he would call them, and whatever the man called a living creature, that {was} its name.

And the man gave names to all the livestock and to the bird{s} of the sky and to every living thing of the field, but for the man a suitable helper was not found. \*

So God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man. And {while} he was sleeping, then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place {with} flesh.

Then God built the rib which he had taken from the man into a woman, and he brought her to the man.

And the man said, “This {one} now {is} bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,’ because {it was} from a man {that} she was taken.” \*

For that {reason} a man will leave his father and his mother, and he will cling to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

And the man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed. \*