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he rested from all his work. And 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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This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth.
The Man and Woman in Eden
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. 6 Instead, springs came
up from the ground and watered all the land.
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Then the LORD God formed the man
from the dustof the ground.
He breathed the breath of life
into the man’ s nostrils,
and the man became a living person.
8 Then 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.
10 A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing
into four branches. 11 The 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. 14 The 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.”
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Then the LORD God said,
“ It is not good for the man to be alone.
I will make a helperr
who is
just right for him.”
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 each one. 20 He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds
of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him.
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