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So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed.

The Seventh Day: God Rests

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he resteda from all his work.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

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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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And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

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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,

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The Creation of Man

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

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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.

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And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

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Instead, springsb came up from the ground and watered all the land.

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But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

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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.

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And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.

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The Planting of the Garden

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

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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.

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And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

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A river flowed from the land of Eden, watering the garden and then dividing into four branches.

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And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

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The first branch, called the Pishon, flowed around the entire land of Havilah, where gold is found.

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The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

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The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there.

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And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

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The second branch, called the Gihon, flowed around the entire land of Cush.

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And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

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The third branch, called the Tigris, flowed east of the land of Asshur. The fourth branch is called the Euphrates.

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And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

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The LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.

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The Forbidden Fruit

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

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But the LORD God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden —

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And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

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except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”

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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

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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.”

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Adam Names the Animals

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

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So the LORD God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky. He brought them to the manc to see what he would call them, and the man chose a name for each one.

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And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

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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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And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

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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 ribsd and closed up the opening.

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The Creation of Woman

And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

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Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man.

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And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

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“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.’”

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And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

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This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.

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And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

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Genesis 2

Genesis 2