Genesis 2:1–17

¹Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all ^atheir hosts.

²And ¹on ^athe seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and ^bHe rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

³Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He rested from all His work which God had created ¹in making it.

The Generations of the Heavens and the Earth

^4aThese are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in ^bthe day that ¹Yahweh God made earth and heaven.

^5aNow no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet grown, ^bfor Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to ¹cultivate the ground.

⁶But a ¹stream would rise from the earth and water the whole ²surface of the ground.

⁷Then Yahweh God formed man of ^adust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and so the ^bman became a living ¹being.

⁸And Yahweh God planted a ^agarden in Eden, toward the east; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.

⁹And out of the ground Yahweh God caused to grow ^aevery tree that is ^bdesirable in appearance and good for food; ^cthe tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰Now a ^ariver went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four ¹rivers.

¹¹The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that ¹went around the whole land of ^aHavilah, where there is gold.

¹²Now the gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there.

¹³And the name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that ¹went around the whole land of Cush.

¹⁴And the name of the third river is ^1aTigris; it is the one that went east of ²Asshur. And the fourth river is the ^3bEuphrates.

¹⁵Then Yahweh God took the man and ¹set him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.

¹⁶And Yahweh God ^acommanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may surely eat;

¹⁷but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat from it; for in the day that you eat from it ^ayou will surely die.”