The Seventh Day
1. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
2. By the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
3. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.
Man and Woman in the Garden
4. This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.
5. Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
6. But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
7. Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
8. Now the LORD God had planted a garden in 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 every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10. Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:
11. The name of the first is Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12. The gold of that land is pure; bdellium and onyx are also found there.
13. The name of the second river is Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.
14. The name of the third river is Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15. Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
16. And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,
17. but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
18. Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”
19. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
20. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air, and every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
21. So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.
22. And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him.
23. And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
24. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
25. And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.