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along the ground, and wild animals.”
And that is what happened. 25 God
made all sorts of wild animals,
livestock, and small animals, each
able to produce offspring of the same
kind. And God saw that it
was good.
26Then God said, “Let us make
human beings* in our image, to
be like us. They will reign over
the fish in the sea, the birds
in the sky, the livestock, all the
wild animals on the earth,* and
the small animals that scurry along
the ground.”
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So God created human beings*
in his own image.
In the image of God he
created them;
male and female he created
them.
28Then God blessed them and
said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill
the earth and govern it. Reign over
the fish in the sea, the birds in the
sky, and all the animals that scurry
along the ground.”
29 Then God said, “Look! I have
given you every seed-bearing plant
throughout the earth and all the
fruit trees for your food. 30And I
have given every green plant as food
for all the wild animals, the birds in
the sky, and the small animals that
scurry along the ground—everything
that has life.” And that is what
happened.
31Then God looked over all he had
made, and he saw that it was very good!
And evening passed and morning
came, marking the sixth day.
2:1So the creation of the heavens and
the earth and everything in them
was completed. 2On the seventh
day God had finished his work of
creation, so he rested* from all his
work. 3And God blessed the seventh
day and declared it holy, because it
was the day when he rested from all
his work of creation.
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4This
is the account of the creation of
the heavens and the earth.
When the Lord God made the earth
and the heavens, 5 neither wild plants
nor grains were growing on the earth.
For the Lord God had not yet sent rain
to water the earth, and there were no
people to cultivate the soil. 6Instead,
springs* came up from the ground and
watered all the land. 7 Then the Lord
God formed the man from the dust of
the ground. He breathed the breath of
life into the man’s nostrils, and the man
became a living person.
8Then the Lord God planted a garden
in Eden in the east, and there he placed
the man he had made. 9 The Lord God
made all sorts of trees grow up from the
ground—trees that were beautiful and
that produced delicious fruit. In the
middle of the garden he placed the tree
of life and the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil.
10A river flowed from the land of
Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into four branches. 11The first
branch, called the Pishon, flowed
around the entire land of Havilah, where
gold is found. 12 The gold of that land is
exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and
onyx stone are also found there. 13 The
second branch, called the Gihon, flowed
around the entire land of Cush. 14The
third branch, called the Tigris, flowed
east of the land of Asshur. The fourth
branch is called the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God placed the man in
the Garden of Eden to tend and watch
over it. 16 But the Lord God warned him,
“You may freely eat the fruit of every
tree in the garden—17 except the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil. If you
eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”
18Then the Lord God said, “It is not
good for the man to be alone. I will
make a helper who is just right for him.”
19 So the Lord God formed from the
ground all the wild animals and all
the birds of the sky. He brought them to
the man* to see what he would call
them, and the man chose a name for
