Dual Panel1Thus the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed.
2On the sixth day God brought to an end all the work he had been doing; on the seventh day, having finished all his work,
3God blessed the day and made it holy, because it was the day he finished all his work of creation.
Adam and Eve
4THIS is the story of the heavens and the earth after their creation. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
5there was neither shrub nor plant growing on the earth, because the LORD God had sent no rain; nor was there anyone to till the ground.
6Moisture used to well up out of the earth and water all the surface of the ground.
7The LORD God formed a human being from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, so that he became a living creature.
8The LORD God planted a garden in Eden away to the east, and in it he put the man he had formed.
9The LORD God made trees grow up from the ground, every kind of tree pleasing to the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden he set the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10There was a river flowing from Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four streams.
11The name of the first is Pishon; it is the river which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where gold is found.
12The gold of that land is good; gum resin and cornelians are also to be found there.
13The name of the second river is Gihon; this is the one which skirts the whole land of Cush.
14The name of the third is Tigris; this is the river which flows east of Asshur. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
15The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and look after it.
16“You may eat from any tree in the garden”, he told the man,
17“except from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; the day you eat from that, you are surely doomed to die.”
18Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I shall make a partner suited to him.”
19So from the earth he formed all the wild animals and all the birds of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each living creature, that would be its name.
20The man gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every wild animal; but for the man himself no suitable partner was found.
21The LORD God then put the man into a deep sleep and, while he slept, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the flesh over the place.
22The rib he had taken out of the man the LORD God built up into a woman, and he brought her to the man.
23The man said: “This one at last is bone from my bones, flesh from my flesh! She shall be called woman, for from man was she taken.”
24That is why a man leaves his father and mother and attaches himself to his wife, and the two become one.
25Both were naked, the man and his wife, but they had no feeling of shame.