1Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all that fills them. 2By the seventh day God had finished the work he had done, and on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creation he had done.
The Garden of Eden
4This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created — on the day Yahweh God made earth and heavens. 5No wild shrub had yet appeared on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for Yahweh God had not sent rain on the earth, and there was no one to work the ground; 6but a mist rose from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7Then Yahweh God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. 8Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the man he had formed. 9Out of the ground Yahweh God made grow every tree pleasing to look at and good for food, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided into four branches. 11The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold — 12and the gold of that land is fine; bdellium and onyx stone are also there. 13The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush. 14The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15Yahweh God took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to work it and watch over it. 16Yahweh God commanded the man, “You may freely eat from every tree of the garden, 17but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you must not eat, for on the day you eat from it, you will surely die.”
The Making of Woman
18Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper, his counterpart.” 19So out of the ground Yahweh God formed every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each living creature, that became its name. 20The man named all the livestock, the birds of the sky, and the wild animals; but for the man himself no helper, no counterpart, was found. 21So Yahweh God made the man fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. 22Then Yahweh God built the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. 23The man said, “This one at last is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh; she will be called woman, for she was taken out of man.” 24This is why a man leaves his father and his mother and joins himself to his wife, and they become one flesh. 25The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
