So the heavens and the earth and everything in them ^hwere completed. ⁱ²By the seventh ^jday God completed His work that He had done, and He rested ^kon the seventh day from all His work that He had done. ^l³God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it He rested ^mfrom His work of creation. ⁿ^o

Man and Woman in the Garden

⁴These are the records ^pof the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation at the time ^qthat the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. ⁵No shrub of the field ^rhad yet grown on the land, ^sand 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 water would come out of the ground and water the entire surface of the land. ⁷Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground ^tand breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, ^uand the man became a living being. ^v

⁸The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, ^wand 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, ^xas well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ^y

¹⁰A river went ^zout from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers. ^a¹¹The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah, ^b^cwhere there is gold. ¹²Gold from that land is pure; ^dbdellium ^eand onyx ^fare 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 the Tigris, ^gwhich runs east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. ^h

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, ⁱ¹⁷but you must not eat ^jfrom the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.” ^k

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Footnotes

h2:1 and all their host
j2:2 , , Syr read sixth
k2:2 Or ceased
n2:3 work that God created to make
q2:4 creation on the day
s2:5 Or earth
z2:10 Or goes
a2:10 became four heads
b2:11 Or of the Havilah
d2:12 good
e2:12 A yellowish, transparent gum resin
f2:12 Identity of this precious stone uncertain
j2:17 eat from it

Cross references

i2:1 Neh 9:6; Ps 33:6; Is 34:4; 45:12
l2:2 Ex 20:8–11; 31:17; Dt 5:12–14; Heb 4:4
m2:3 Ex 31:17
o2:3 Ex 20:11; 31:17; Ps 121:2
p2:4 Gn 5:1; 6:9; 10:1; 11:10, 27; 25:12, 19; 36:1, 9; 37:2
r2:5 Gn 1:11–12
t2:7 Gn 3:19, 23; 18:27; Ps 103:14; Ec 12:7; 1Co 15:47
u2:7 Gn 7:22; Jb 33:4; Is 2:22
v2:7 1Co 15:45
w2:8 Gn 13:10; Is 51:3; Ezk 28:13; 31:8; Jl 2:3
x2:9 Gn 3:22; Rv 2:7; 22:2, 14
y2:9 Pr 3:18
c2:11 Gn 10:7, 29; 25:18; 1Sm 15:7
g2:14 Dn 10:4
h2:14 Gn 15:18
i2:16 Gn 3:1–2
k2:17 Gn 3:5; Dt 30:15, 19–20; Rm 6:23; 1Tm 5:6; Jms 1:15