Genesis 2:1–23

The Creation of Man and Woman

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

²By ^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 in it He rested from all His work which God had created ¹and made.

^41aThis is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in ^bthe day that the Lord God made earth and heaven.

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

⁶But a ¹mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole ²surface of the ground.

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

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

⁹Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow ^aevery tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; ^bthe tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰Now a ^ariver ¹flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four ²rivers.

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

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

¹³The name of the second river is Gihon; it ¹flows around the whole land of Cush.

¹⁴The name of the third river is ^1aTigris; it ²flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the ^3bEuphrates.

¹⁵Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.

¹⁶The Lord God ^acommanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;

¹⁷but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not ¹eat, for in the day that you eat from it ^ayou will surely die.”

¹⁸Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; ^aI will make him a helper ¹suitable for him.”

^19aOut of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the ¹sky, and ^bbrought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.

²⁰The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the ¹sky, and to every beast of the field, but for ²Adam there was not found ^aa helper ³suitable for him.

²¹So the Lord God caused a ^adeep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.

²²The Lord God ¹fashioned into a woman ^athe rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

²³The man said,

“^aThis is now bone of my bones,

And flesh of my flesh;

¹She shall be called ²Woman,

Because she was taken out of ³Man.”