1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and *Deut. 4:19;Ps. 33:6all the host of them. 2 And *Ex. 20:8-11;31:17;Deut. 5:12-14;Heb. 4:4on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

4 *ch. 1:1These are the generations

of the heavens and the earth when they were created,

in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

5 When no *[ch. 1:11,12] bush of the field*2:5 Or open country was yet in the land*2:5 Or earth; also verse 6 and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man *ch. 3:23to work the ground, 6 and a mist*2:6 Or spring was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— 7 then the Lord God formed the man of *ch. 3:19,23;18:27;Ps. 103:14;Eccles. 12:7;1 Cor. 15:47dust from the ground and *ch. 7:22;Job 33:4;Isa. 2:22breathed into his *Job 27:3nostrils the breath of life, and *Cited 1 Cor. 15:45the man became a living creature. 8 And the Lord God planted a *ver. 15;ch. 13:10;Isa. 51:3;Ezek. 28:13;31:8;Joel 2:3garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. *ch. 3:22;Rev. 2:7;22:2,14The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, *ver. 17and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of *ch. 10:7,29;25:18;1 Sam. 15:7Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third river is the *Dan. 10:4Tigris, which flows east of Assyria.*2:14 Or Asshur And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

15 The Lord God took the man *ver. 8and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil *ch. 3:1-3,11,17you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat*2:17 Or when you eat of it you *Rom. 6:23;James 1:15shall surely die."

18 Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; *1 Cor. 11:9;1 Tim. 2:13I will make him a helper fit for*2:18 Or corresponding to; also verse 20 him." 19 *ch. 1:20,24Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed*2:19 Or And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and *Ps. 8:6brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam*2:20 Or the man there was not found a helper fit for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a *ch. 15:12;1 Sam. 26:12deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made*2:22 Hebrew built into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,

"This at last is *ch. 29:14;Judg. 9:2;2 Sam. 5:1;19:13;[Eph. 5:28-30] bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;

she shall be called Woman,

because she was *1 Cor. 11:8taken out of Man."*2:23 The Hebrew words for woman (ishshah) and man (ish) sound alike

24 *Cited Matt. 19:5;Mark 10:7;1 Cor. 6:16;Eph. 5:31;[Ps. 45:10;1 Cor. 7:10,11]Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.