1So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed.2:1 Neh 9:6; Ps 33:6; Is 34:4; 45:12
2On the seventh2:2 Sam, LXX, Syr read sixth day God had completed his work that he had done, and he rested2:2 Or ceased, also in v. 3 on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.2:2 Ex 20:8–11; 31:17; Dt 5:12–14; Heb 4:4
Man and Woman in the Garden
4These are the records2:4 Gn 5:1; 6:9; 10:1; 11:10,27; 25:12,19; 36:1,9; 37:2 of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation. At the time2:4 Lit creation on the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
5no shrub of the field2:5 Gn 1:11–12 had yet grown on the land,2:5 Or earth and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.
6But mist would come up from the earth and water all the ground.
10A river went2:10 Or goes out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.2:10 Lit became four heads
11The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah,2:11 Or of the Havilah2:11 Gn 10:7,29; 25:18; 1Sm 15:7 where there is gold.
12Gold from that land is pure;2:12 Lit good bdellium2:12 A yellowish, transparent gum resin and onyx2:12 Identity of this precious stone uncertain are also there.
13The name of the second river is Gihon, which flows through the entire land of Cush.
15The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.
16And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the garden,2:16 Gn 3:1–2
17but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”2:17 Gn 3:5; Dt 30:15,19–20; Rm 6:23; 1Tm 5:6; Jms 1:15
18Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding2:18 Pr 31:11–12; 1Co 11:9; 1Tm 2:13 to him.”
19The Lord God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it.2:19 Ps 8:6 And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.
20The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man2:20 Or for Adam no helper was found corresponding to him.
21So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man,2:21 Gn 15:12 and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place.
22Then the Lord God made the rib he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.2:22 1Co 11:8,12
23And the man said:
This one, at last, is bone of my bone
and flesh of my flesh;
this one will be called “woman,”
for she was taken from man.2:23 Eph 5:28–30
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