1So the heavens and the earth were finished, and everything in them.
2On the seventh day God finished the work he had done. On the seventh day he rested from all the work he had done.
3God blessed the seventh day and made it holy. For on that day he rested from all the work he had created and made.
4This is the story of the heavens and the earth when they were created, on the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
5No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet grown. For the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to work the ground.
6But a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7The LORD God formed man out of the dust of the ground. He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
8The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man he had formed.
9Out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to look at and good for food. The tree of life was also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10A river went out of Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became four branches.
11The name of the first is Pison. It flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12The gold of that land is good. There is bdellium there, and the onyx stone.
13The name of the second river is Gihon. It flows around the whole land of Ethiopia.
14The name of the third river is Hiddekel. It goes toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden, to work it and to keep it.
16The LORD God commanded the man, and said, "You may freely eat from every tree of the garden."
17"But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. For on the day you eat from it you will surely die."
18The LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make a helper who is right for him."
19Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. Whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.
20Adam gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was found no helper who was right for him.
21The LORD God made a deep sleep fall upon Adam, and he slept. He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
22From the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man, he made a woman, and brought her to the man.
23Adam said, "This at last is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
24For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall hold fast to his wife. And they shall be one flesh.
25They were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.