Genesis 2:1–23

So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed.^{a 2}On the seventh^E 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 rested^c from all his work of creation.^d

MAN AND WOMAN IN THE GARDEN

⁴These are the records^e of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation. At the time^G that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, ⁵no shrub of the field^f 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. ⁶But mist would come up from the earth and water all the ground. ⁷Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground^g and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils,^h and the man became a living being.ⁱ

⁸The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,^j and there he placed the man he had formed. ⁹The 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

¹⁰A river went^I 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,^Am where there is gold. ¹²Gold from that land is pure;^B bdellium^C and onyx^D are also there. ¹³The name of the second river is Gihon, which flows through the entire land of Cush. ¹⁴The name of the third river is Tigris,ⁿ which runs east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.^o

¹⁵The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it. ¹⁶And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the garden,^{p 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 certainly die.”^{q 18}Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding^r to him.” ¹⁹The Lord God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it.^s And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. ²⁰The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man^E no helper was found corresponding to him. ²¹So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man,^t and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place. ²²Then the Lord God made the rib he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.^{u 23}And the man said:

This one, at last, is bone of my bone

and flesh of my flesh;

this one will be called “woman,”

for she was taken from man.^v