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offspring of the same kind. And God saw
that it was good. 22 Then God blessed them,
saying, “Be fruitful and multiply. Let the
fish fill the seas, and let the birds multiply
on the earth.”
23 And evening passed and morning
came, marking the fifth day.
24 Then God said, “Let the earth produce every
sort of animal, each producing offspring
of the same kind—livestock, small
animals that scurry 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.
26 Then 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.”
27
So God created human beings* in his
own image.
In the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
28 Then 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.
30 And 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 g
round—everything that has
life.” And that is what happened.
31 Then 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.
2:1 So the creation of the heavens and
the earth and everything in them was
completed. 2 On the seventh day God had
finished his work of creation, so he rested*
from all his work. 3 And God blessed the
seventh day and declared it holy, because
it was the day when he rested from all his
work of creation.
4 This
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.
6 Instead, 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.
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 Hav
ilah, 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.”
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.
“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.
