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[1]Thusthe heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
[2]Forin the seventh day God ended his work which he had made, and the seventh day he rested from all his work, which he had made.
[3]SoGod blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his work, which God had created and made.
[4]Theseare the generations of the heavens and of the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
[5]Andevery plant of the field, before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field, before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, neither was there a man to till the ground,
[6]Buta mist went up from the earth, and watered all the earth.
[7]TheLord God also made the man of the dust of the ground, and breathed in his face breath of life, and the man was a living soul.
[8]Andthe Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.
[9](Forout of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree pleasant to the sight, and good for meat: the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and of evil.
[10]Andout of Eden went a river to water the garden, and from thence it was divided, and became into four heads.
[11]Thename of one is Pison: the same compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where is gold.
[12]Andthe gold of that land is good: there is also bdellium, and the onyx stone.
[13]Andthe name of the second river is Gihon: the same compasseth the whole land of Cush.
[14]Thename also of the third river is Hiddekel: this goeth toward the east side of Assyria: and the fourth river is Perath)
[15]Thenthe Lord God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden, that he might dress it and keep it.
[16]Andthe Lord God commanded the man, saying, Thou shalt eat freely of every tree of the garden,
[17]Butas touching the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for when so ever thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the death.
[18]Alsothe Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be himself alone. I will make him an help meet for him.
[19]Sothe Lord God formed of the earth every beast of the field, and every foul of the heaven, and brought them unto the man to see how he would call them: for how so ever the man named the living creature, so was the name thereof.
[20]Theman therefore gave names unto all cattle, and to the foul of the heaven, and to every beast of the field: but for Adam found he not an help meet for him.
[21]Thereforethe Lord God caused an heavy sleep to fall upon the man, and whiles he slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof.
[22]Andthe rib which the Lord God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her to the man.
[23]Thenthe man said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.
[24]Thereforeshall man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
[25]Andthey were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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