2 And so the heavens and the earth were completed, and all ^(A)their heavenly ^[a]lights. ² By ^(B)the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and ^(C)He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. ³ Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He rested from all His work which God had created ^[b]and made.

The Creation of Man and Woman

^4 [c](D)This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in ^(E)the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven. ^5 (F)Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, ^(G)for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to ^[d]cultivate the ground. ⁶ But a ^[e]mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole ^[f]surface of the ground. ⁷ Then the Lord God formed the man of ^(H)dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the ^(I)man became a living ^[g]person. ⁸ The Lord God planted a ^(J)garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. ⁹ Out of the ground the Lord God caused ^(K)every tree to grow that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; ^(L)the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰ Now a ^(M)river ^[h]flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four ^[i]rivers. ¹¹ The name of the first is Pishon; it ^[j]flows around the whole land of ^(N)Havilah, where there is gold. ¹² The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there as well. ¹³ The name of the second river is Gihon; it ^[k]flows around the whole land of Cush. ¹⁴ The name of the third river is ^[l](O)Tigris; it ^[m]flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the ^[n](P)Euphrates.

¹⁵ Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and tend it. ¹⁶ The Lord God ^(Q)commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; ¹⁷ but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not ^[o]eat, for on the day that you eat from it ^(R)you will certainly die.”

¹⁸ Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; ^(S)I will make him a helper ^[p]suitable for him.” ^19 (T)And out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the sky, and ^(U)brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. ²⁰ The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field, but for ^[q]Adam there was not found ^(V)a helper ^[r]suitable for him. ²¹ So the Lord God caused a ^(W)deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. ²² And the Lord God ^[s]fashioned into a woman ^(X)the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. ²³ Then the man said,

^24 (Z)For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. ^25 (AA)And the man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.