The Seventh Day

1 The sky and the earth were finished, and all their arrangement. 2 God finished his works that he had made⁠a on the⁠b sixth day,⁠c and he rested on the seventh day from all his works that he had made.⁠d 3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all his works which God had begun to make.

The Human and the Garden

4 This is the book of the origin of sky and earth, when they came into being, on the day when God made the sky and the earth, 5 and every field plant before it appeared on the earth, and all the field grass before it sprouted, for God had not sent rain on the earth, and there was not a human to work the earth. 6 A spring was rising from the earth and watering the whole face of the earth.

7 God formed the human, dust from the earth,⁠e and breathed into his face a breath of life,⁠f and the human became a living being.

8 The Lord God planted a garden in Eden toward the east, and placed the human there whom he had formed. 9 God also made grow from the earth every tree beautiful to the eye and good for food, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree for knowing what is knowable of good and evil.

The Rivers of Eden

10 A river flows out of Eden to water the garden. From there it divides into four sources. 11 The name of the first is Pishon. It encircles the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 The gold of that land is good, and carbuncle and pale green stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is Gihon. It encircles the whole land of Ethiopia. 14 The third river is the Tigris. It flows opposite the Assyrians. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

The Human in the Garden

15 The Lord God took the human whom he had formed, and placed him in the garden, to work and keep it.

16 The Lord God commanded Adam, saying, “From every tree which is in the garden you may eat for food,

17 “But from the tree for knowing good and evil, you must not eat, and on the day you eat of it, you will certainly die.”

A Helper for the Human

18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the human to be alone. Let us make him a helper corresponding to him.”⁠g 19 God also formed from the earth all the wild animals of the field, and all the birds of the sky, and he brought them to Adam, to see what he would call them, and whatever Adam called any living creature, that was the name of it. 20 Adam gave names to all the cattle and to all the birds of the sky, and to all the wild animals of the field, but for Adam no helper like him was found.

21 God cast a trance on Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and filled its place with flesh. 22 The Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam.

23 Adam said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called woman, because she was taken out of her husband.”

24 Therefore a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.⁠h

25 The two were naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.