Genesis 2:1–23

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.^l

²By the seventh day^m God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.^{n 3}Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,^o because on it he rested^p from all the work of creating^q that he had done.

Adam and Eve

⁴This is the account^r of the heavens and the earth when they were created,^s when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

⁵Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth^a and no plant had yet sprung up,^t for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth^u and there was no one to work the ground, ⁶but streams^b came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. ⁷Then the Lord God formed^v a man^cw from the dust^x of the ground^y and breathed into his nostrils the breath^z of life,^a and the man became a living being.^b

⁸Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden;^c and there he put the man he had formed. ⁹The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees^d that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life^e and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.^f

¹⁰A river^g watering the garden flowed from Eden;^h from there it was separated into four headwaters. ¹¹The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah,ⁱ where there is gold. ¹²(The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin^dj and onyx are also there.) ¹³The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.^{e 14}The name of the third river is the Tigris;^k it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.^l

¹⁵The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden^m to work it and take care of it. ¹⁶And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;^{n 17}but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,^o for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”^p

¹⁸The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”^q

¹⁹Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals^r and all the birds in the sky.^s He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called^t each living creature,^u that was its name. ²⁰So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.

But for Adam^f no suitable helper^v was found. ²¹So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep;^w and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs^g and then closed up the place with flesh. ²²Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib^hx he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

²³The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;^y

she shall be called^z ‘woman,’

for she was taken out of man.^a”