⁵And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and every herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth.

⁶But a spring rose out of the earth, watering all the surface of the earth.

⁷And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

⁸And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.

⁹And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise, which from thence is divided into four heads.

¹¹The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth.

¹²And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdellium, and the onyx stone.

¹³And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia.

¹⁴And the name of the third river is Tigris: the same passeth along by the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

¹⁵And the Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.

¹⁶And he commanded him, saying: Of every tree of paradise thou shalt eat:

¹⁷But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.

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