book of Genesis ( NKJV
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2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the
host of them, were finished. 2 And 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. 3 Then God blessed
the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His
work which God had created and made. 4 This [is] the
history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day
that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, 5 before
any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field
had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and
[there was] no man to till the ground; 6 but a mist
went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
8 The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put
the man whom He had formed. 9 And out of the ground
the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good
for food. The tree of life [was] also in the midst of the garden, and the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10 Now a river
went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became
four riverheads. 11 The name of the first [is] Pishon;
it [is] the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where [there is]
gold. 12 And the gold of that land [is] good. Bdellium
and the onyx stone [are] there. 13 The name of the second
river [is] Gihon; it [is] the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.
14 The name of the third river [is] Hiddekel; it [is] the one which
goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river [is] the Euphrates.
15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden
to tend and keep it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the
man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
17 "but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall
not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
18 And the LORD God said, "[It is] not good that man should be alone;
I will make him a helper comparable to him." 19 Out
of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird
of the air, and brought [them] to Adam to see what he would call them.
And whatever Adam called each living creature, that [was] its name.
20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and
to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper
comparable to him. 21 And the LORD God caused a deep
sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed
up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the
LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to
the man. 23 And Adam said: "This [is] now bone of my
bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was
taken out of Man." 24 Therefore a man shall leave his
father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one
flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and his
wife, and were not ashamed. |