Genesis 2:1–15

So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed.a 2 On the seventhE day God had completed his work that he had done, and he rested* on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.b 3 God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it he restedc from all his work of creation.d

MAN AND WOMAN IN THE GARDEN

4 These are the recordse of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation. At the timeG that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 no shrub of the fieldf had yet grown on the land,H and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground. 6 But mist would come up from the earth and water all the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the groundg and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils,h and the man became a living being.i

8 The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,j and there he placed the man he had formed. 9 The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden,k as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.l

10 A river wentI out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.J 11 The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah,A,m where there is gold. 12 Gold from that land is pure;B bdelliumC and onyxD are also there. 13 The name of the second river is Gihon, which flows through the entire land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is Tigris,n which runs east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.o

15 The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.