1 So the heavens and the earth were completed, together with all their host.
2 On the seventh day God brought to completion the work he had made, and on the seventh day he rested from all the work he had made.
3 God blessed the seventh day and set it apart as holy, because on it he rested from all the work which God had created and made.
4 This is the history of the heavens and the earth at their creation, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heavens.
5 No bush of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, because the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;
6 but a mist would rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.
7 And the LORD God formed the man out of dust from the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.
8 The LORD God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east, and placed there the man he had formed.
9 From the ground the LORD God caused to spring up every tree that is pleasing to look at and good to eat, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four headwaters.
11 The first is named Pishon; it winds around the whole land of Havilah, where the gold is.
12 The gold of that land is good; bdellium is there, and the onyx stone.
13 The second river is named Gihon; it winds around the whole land of Cush.
14 The third river is named Hiddekel; it runs east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 Then the LORD God took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to guard it.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man: "From every tree of the garden you may eat freely,
17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you must not eat, for on the day you eat from it you will certainly die."
18 And the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be by himself; I will make for him a helper who is his counterpart."
19 So the LORD God formed from the ground every animal of the field and every bird of the heavens, and he brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that became its name.
20 The man gave names to all the cattle, to the birds of the heavens, and to every animal of the field; but for Adam no helper was found who was his counterpart.
21 Then the LORD God made a deep sleep fall on the man, and he fell asleep; and he took one of his ribs and closed up flesh in its place.
22 The LORD God built the rib he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.
23 And the man said, "This one, this time, is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for from Man this one was taken."
24 That is why a man will leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
25 The two of them, the man and his wife, were naked, yet they felt no shame.