Dual Panel1THUS THE heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
3And God blessed (spoke good of) the seventh day, set it apart as His own, and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all His work which He had created and done.
4This is the history of the heavens and of the earth when they were created. In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens--
5When no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not [yet] caused it to rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the ground,
6But there went up a mist (fog, vapor) from the land and watered the whole surface of the ground--
7Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath {or} spirit of life, and man became a living being.
8And the Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden [delight]; and there He put the man whom He had formed (framed, constituted).
9And out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight {or} to be desired--good (suitable, pleasant) for food; the tree of life also in the center of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of [the difference between] good and evil {and} blessing and calamity.
10Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four [river] heads.
11The first is named Pishon; it is the one flowing around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12The gold of that land is of high quality; bdellium (pearl?) and onyx stone are there.
13The second river is named Gihon; it is the one flowing around the whole land of Cush.
14The third river is named Hiddekel [the Tigris]; it is the one flowing east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and guard {and} keep it.
16And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;
17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil {and} blessing and calamity you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
18Now the Lord God said, It is not good (sufficient, satisfactory) that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper (suitable, adapted, complementary) for him.
19And out of the ground the Lord God formed every [wild] beast {and} living creature of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them; and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was its name.
20And Adam gave names to all the livestock and to the birds of the air and to every [wild] beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper meet (suitable, adapted, complementary) for him.
21And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and while he slept, He took one of his ribs {or} a part of his side and closed up the [place with] flesh.
22And the rib {or} part of his side which the Lord God had taken from the man He built up {and} made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
23Then Adam said, This [creature] is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of a man.
24Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall become united {and} cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
25And the man and his wife were both naked and were not embarrassed {or} ashamed in each other's presence.