¹And the heavens and the earth and all their host were finished. ²And God had finished on the seventh day his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. ³And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, because that on it he rested from all his work which God had created in making it.

⁴These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens, ⁵and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah Elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground. ⁶But a mist went up from the earth, and moistened the whole surface of the ground. ⁷And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul.

⁸And Jehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and there put Man whom he had formed. ⁹And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ¹⁰And a river went out of Eden, to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four main streams. ¹¹The name of the one is Pison: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Havilah, where the gold is. ¹²And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and the onyx stone are there. ¹³And the name of the second river is Gihon: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Cush. ¹⁴And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which flows forward toward Asshur. And the fourth river, that is Euphrates. ¹⁵And Jehovah Elohim took Man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to till it and to guard it.

¹⁶And Jehovah Elohim commanded Man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou shalt freely eat; ¹⁷but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt certainly die.

¹⁸And Jehovah Elohim said, It is not good that Man should be alone; I will make him a helpmate, his like. ¹⁹And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim had formed every animal of the field and all fowl of the heavens, and brought them to Man, to see what he would call them; and whatever Man called each living soul, that was its name. ²⁰And Man gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but as for Adam, he found no helpmate, his like.

²¹And Jehovah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Man; and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up flesh in its stead. ²²And Jehovah Elohim built the rib that he had taken from Man into a woman; and brought her to Man. ²³And Man said, This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: this shall be called Woman, because this was taken out of a man. ²⁴Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. ²⁵And they were both naked, Man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Chapter 3

¹And the serpent was more crafty than any animal of the field which Jehovah Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, Is it even so, that God has said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? ²And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; ³but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, and ye shall not touch it, lest ye die. ⁴And the serpent said to the woman, Ye will not certainly die; ⁵but God knows that in the day ye eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as God, knowing good and evil.

⁶And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. ⁷And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons. ⁸And they heard the voice of Jehovah Elohim, walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah Elohim, in the midst of the trees of the garden.

⁹And Jehovah Elohim called to Man, and said to him, Where art thou? ¹⁰And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I feared, because I am naked; and I hid myself.

¹¹And he said, Who told thee that thou art naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee not to eat? ¹²And Man said, The woman, whom thou hast given to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate. ¹³And Jehovah Elohim said to the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.

¹⁴And Jehovah Elohim said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, be thou cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. On thy belly shalt thou go, and eat dust all the days of thy life. ¹⁵And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel.

¹⁶To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.

¹⁷And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; ¹⁸and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. ¹⁹In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.

²⁰And Man called his wife’s name Eve; because she is the mother of all living.

²¹And Jehovah Elohim made Adam and his wife coats of skin, and clothed them.

²²And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, Man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever…! ²³Therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴And he drove out Man; and he set the Cherubim, and the flame of the flashing sword, toward the east of the garden of Eden, to guard the way to the tree of life.

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