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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 g
round—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 As
shur. 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 g
arden—17 except the
tree of the knowledge of good and
evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure
to die.”
18 Then 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
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.
21 So the Lord God caused the man
to fall into a deep sleep. While the
man slept, the Lord God took out one
of the man’s ribs* and closed up the
opening. 22 Then the Lord God made
a woman from the rib, and he brought
her to the man.
23 “At last!” the man exclaimed.
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“This one is bone from my bone,
and flesh from my flesh!
She will be called ‘woman,’
because she was taken from
‘man.’”
24 This
explains why a man leaves
his father and mother and is joined to
his wife, and the two are united into
one.
25 Now the man and his wife were
both naked, but they felt no shame.
1:1 Or In the beginning when God created the heavens
and the earth, . . . Or When God began to create the
heavens and the earth, . . .
1:26a Or man; Hebrew
reads adam.
1:26b As in Syriac version; Hebrew
reads all the earth.
1:27 Or the man; Hebrew reads
ha-adam.
2:2 Or ceased; also in 2:3. 2:6 Or mist.
2:19 Or Adam, and so throughout the chapter.
2:21 Or took a part of the man’s side.
MATTHEW 1:1–2:12
This is a record of the ancestors of
Jesus the Messiah, a descendant of
David and of Abraham*:
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Abraham was the father of Isaac.
Isaac was the father of Jacob.
Jacob was the father of Judah and
his brothers.
Judah was the father of Perez
and Zerah (whose mother was
Tamar).
Perez was the father of Hezron.
Hezron was the father of Ram.*
Ram was the father of Amminadab.
Amminadab was the father of
Nahshon.
Nahshon was the father of Salmon.
Salmon was the father of Boaz
(whose mother was Rahab).
Boaz was the father of Obed
(whose mother was Ruth).
Obed was the father of Jesse.
Jesse was the father of King David.
David was the father of Solomon
(whose mother was Bathsheba,
the widow of Uriah).
Solomon was the father of
Rehoboam.
Rehoboam was the father of
Abijah.
Abijah was the father of Asa.*
Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat.
Jehoshaphat was the father of
Jehoram.*
Jehoram was the father* of Uzziah.
