Genesis 2
1 So the heavens and the earth were completed, along with all their host.
2 On the seventh day God completed the work he had done, and on the seventh day he rested from all the work he had done.
3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work God had created and done.
4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, on the day the LORD God made earth and heaven.
5 No shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted. For the LORD God had not yet sent rain on the earth, and there was no human being to work the soil.
6 But a mist rose from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
7 The LORD God formed the human being from the dust of the soil and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the human being became a living being.
8 The LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the human being he had formed.
9 The LORD God caused every tree pleasing to the eye and good for food to grow from the soil, including 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 divided into four branches.
11 The name of the first is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12 The gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are found there.
13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.
14 The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 The LORD God took the human being and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
16 The LORD God commanded the human being: “You may freely eat from every tree of the garden.
17 But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”
18 The LORD God said: “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make a helper who is suited to him.”
19 The LORD God formed from the soil all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called each living being became its name.
20 The man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals, but for the man no helper suited to him was found.
21 Then the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and he slept. He took one of his ribs and closed the place with flesh.
22 From the rib he had taken from the man, the LORD God formed a woman and brought her to the man.
23 The man said: “At last, bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh. She will be called woman, because she was taken from man.”
24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and they become one flesh.
25 The two of them, the man and his wife, were naked and felt no shame.
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