1The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them.
2By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.
3God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.
The Creation of Man and Woman
4This is the account of the heavens and
the earth when they were created – when the
5Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the
6Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.
7The
8The
9The
10Now a river flows from Eden to
water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.
11The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12(The gold of that land is pure; pearls and lapis lazuli are also there).
13The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through the entire land of Cush.
14The name of the third river is Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
15The
16Then the
17but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.”
18The
19The
20So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.
21So the
22Then the
23Then the man said,
“This one at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
this one will be called ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.”
24That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.
25The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.