Genesis 2

¹ So the heavensheavens and the earthearth were finished, and all the furniture of them.

² And on the seventhseventh dayday GodGod ended his workwork which he had made: and he rested on the seventhseventh dayday from all his workwork which he had done.

³ And he blessedblessed the seventh dayday, and sanctifiedsanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his workwork which GodGod createdcreated and made.

⁴ These are the generations of the heavenheaven and the earthearth, when they were createdcreated, in the dayday that the Lordthe Lord GodGod made the heavenheaven and the earthearth:

⁵ And every plant of the fieldplant of the field before it springspring up in the earthearth, and every herbherb of the groundground before it grew: for the Lordthe Lord GodGod had not rainedrained upon the earthearth; and there was not a man to till the earthearth.

⁶ But a springspring roserose out the earthearth, wateringwatering all the surfacesurface of the earthearth.

⁷ And the Lordthe Lord GodGod formedformed man of theman of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of lifelife, and man became a livingliving soulsoul.

⁸ And the Lordthe Lord GodGod had plantedplanted a paradiseparadise of pleasurepleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formedformed.

⁹ And the Lordthe Lord GodGod brought forth of the ground all manner of treestrees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of lifetree of life also in the midstmidst of paradiseparadise: and the tree of knowledgetree of knowledge of goodgood and evilevil.

¹⁰ And a riverriver went out the place of pleasure to water paradiseparadise, which from thence is divided into fourfour headsheads.

¹¹ The namename of the oneone is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the landland of HevilathHevilath, where goldgold groweth.

¹² And the goldgold of that landland is very goodgood: there is found bdellium, and the onyxonyx stonestone.

¹³ And the namename of the second riverriver is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the landland of Ethiopia

¹⁴ And the namename of the thirdthird riverriver is Tigris: the same passeth along by the Assyrians. And the fourthfourth riverriver is EuphratesEuphrates.

¹⁵ And the Lordthe Lord GodGod took man, and putput him into the paradiseparadise for pleasurepleasure, to dress it, and keepkeep it.

¹⁶ And he commandedcommanded him, saying: Of every treetree of paradiseparadise thou shalt eateat:

¹⁷ But of the tree of knowledgetree of knowledge of goodgood and evilevil, thou shalt not eateat. for in what dayday soever thou shalt eateat of it, thou shalt diedie the death.

¹⁸ And the Lordthe Lord GodGod saidsaid: It is not goodgood for man to be alone: let usus make him a help like unto himself.

¹⁹ And the Lordthe Lord GodGod having formedformed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowlsfowls of the airair, brought them to AdamAdam to seesee what he would callcall them: for whatsoever AdamAdam calledcalled any livingliving creature the same is its namename.

²⁰ And Adam calledcalled all the beastsbeasts by their namesnames, and all the fowlsfowls of the airair, and all the cattle of the fieldfield: but for Adam there was not foundfound a helperhelper like himself.

²¹ Then the Lordthe Lord GodGod cast a deep sleep upon AdamAdam: and when he was fast asleepasleep, he took oneone of his ribsribs, and filled up fleshflesh for it.

²² And the Lordthe Lord GodGod builtbuilt the ribrib which he took from Adam into a womanwoman: and brought her to Adam.

²³ And Adam saidsaid: This now is bonebone of my bonesbones, and fleshflesh of my fleshflesh; she shall be calledcalled womanwoman, because she was taken out of manman.

²⁴ Wherefore a manman shall leave father and motherfather and mother, and shall cleavecleave to his wifewife: and they shall be two in oneone fleshflesh.

²⁵ And they were bothboth nakednaked: to wit, Adam and his wifewife: and were not ashamedashamed.