1So the heavens and the earth and everything else were created.
The seventh day2By the seventh day God had finished his work, and so he rested. came up from the ground and watered the earth.
7The LORD God took a handful of soil and made a man. God breathed life into the man, and the man started breathing.
10From Eden a river flowed out to water the garden, then it divided into four rivers.
11The first one is the River Pishon that flows through the land of Havilah,
12where pure gold, rare perfumes, and precious stones are found.
13The second is the River Gihon that winds through Ethiopia.
14The River Tigris that flows east of Assyria is the third, and the fourth is the River Euphrates.
15The LORD God put the man in the Garden of Eden to take care of it and to look after it.
16But the LORD told him, “You may eat fruit from any tree in the garden,
17except the one that has the power to let you know the difference between right and wrong. If you eat any fruit from that tree, you will die before the day is over!”
18The LORD God said, “It isn't good for the man to live alone. I need to make a suitable partner for him.”
19-20So the LORD took some soil and made animals and birds. He brought them to the man to see what names he would give each of them. Then the man named the tame animals and the birds and the wild animals. That's how they got their names.
None of these was the right kind of partner for the man.
21So the LORD God made him fall into a deep sleep, and he took out one of the man's ribs. Then after closing the man's side,
22the LORD made a woman out of the rib.
The LORD God brought her to the man,
23and the man exclaimed,
“Here is someone like me!
She is part of my body,
my own flesh and bones.
She came from me, a man.
So I will name her Woman!”
24That's why a man will leave his own father and mother. He marries a woman, and the two of them become like one person.
25Although the man and his wife were both naked, they were not ashamed.
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