1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, andwDeut. 4:19; Ps. 33:6 all the host of them. 2 AndxEx. 20:8-11; 31:17; Deut. 5:12-14; Heb. 4:4 on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
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ych. 1:1 These are the generations
of the heavens and the earth when they were created,
in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
5 When noz[ch. 1:11, 12] bush of the field1Or open country was yet in the land2Or earth; also verse 6 and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no manach. 3:23 to work the ground, 6 and a mist1Or spring was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— 7 then the Lord God formed the man ofbch. 3:19, 23; 18:27; Ps. 103:14; Eccles. 12:7; 1 Cor. 15:47 dust from the ground andcch. 7:22; Job 33:4; Isa. 2:22 breathed into hisdJob 27:3 nostrils the breath of life, andeCited 1 Cor. 15:45 the man became a living creature. 8 And the Lord God planted afver. 15; ch. 13:10; Isa. 51:3; Ezek. 28:13; 31:8; Joel 2:3 garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food.gch. 3:22; Rev. 2:7; 22:2, 14 The tree of life was in the midst of the garden,hver. 17 and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land ofich. 10:7, 29; 25:18; 1 Sam. 15:7 Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third river is thejDan. 10:4 Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God took the mankver. 8 and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evillch. 3:1-3, 11, 17 you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat1Or when you eat of it youmRom. 6:23; James 1:15 shall surely die. ”
18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone;n1 Cor. 11:9; 1 Tim. 2:13 I will make him a helper fit for1Or corresponding to; also verse 20 him. ”
19 och. 1:20, 24 So out of the ground the Lord God formed1Or had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens andpPs. 8:6 brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam1Or the man there was not found a helper fit for him.
21 So the Lord God caused aqch. 15:12; 1 Sam. 26:12 deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
23 Then the man said,
“This at last isrch. 29:14; Judg. 9:2; 2 Sam. 5:1; 19:13; [Eph. 5:28-30] bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she wass1 Cor. 11:8 taken out of Man. ”
24 tCited Matt. 19:5; Mark 10:7; 1 Cor. 6:16; Eph. 5:31; [Ps. 45:10; 1 Cor. 7:10, 11] Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.