Genesis 2:7–23

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, ^bcwhere 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.” ^k18Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his complement.” ^l19So the 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. ^mAnd 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 ⁿno helper was found as his complement. ²¹So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, ^oand 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. ^p23And 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. ^q