Genesis 2:1–17

2Thus the heavens and the earth, and ^aall the host of them, were finished. ^2bAnd on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. ³Then God ^cblessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

^4dThis is the ¹history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, ⁵before any ^eplant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the Lord God had not ^fcaused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man ^gto till the ground; ⁶but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.

⁷And the Lord God formed man of the ^hdust of the ground, and ⁱbreathed into his ^jnostrils the breath of life; and ^kman became a living being.

Life in God’s Garden

⁸The Lord God planted ^la garden ^meastward in ⁿEden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. ⁹And out of the ground the Lord God made ^oevery tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. ^pThe tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and ^qevil.

¹⁰Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. ¹¹The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts ^rthe whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. ¹²And the gold of that land is good. ^sBdellium and the onyx stone are there. ¹³The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. ¹⁴The name of the third river is ^tHiddekel; ²it is the one which goes toward the east of ³Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

¹⁵Then the Lord God took ⁴the man and put him in the garden of Eden to ⁵tend and keep it. ¹⁶And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; ¹⁷but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ^uyou shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it ^vyou ⁶shall surely ^wdie.”