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Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
(2:1)
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And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made
(2:2)
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made
(2:3)
These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
(2:4)
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground
(2:5)
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground
(2:6)
And the Lord God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
(2:7)
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And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed
(2:8)
And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil
(2:9)
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads
(2:10)
The name of the first [is] Pison: that [is] it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where [there is] gold;
(2:11)
And the gold of that land [is] good: there [is] bdellium and the onyx stone
(2:12)
And the name of the second river [is] Gihon: the same [is] it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia
(2:13)
And the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel: that [is] it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river [is] Euphrates
(2:14)
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it
(2:15)
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
(2:16)
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die
(2:17)
And the Lord God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him
(2:18)
And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof
(2:19)
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him
(2:20)
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
(2:21)
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
(2:22)
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And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man
(2:23)
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh
(2:24)
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed
(2:25)
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