2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 

2:2 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. 

2:3 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. 

2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, 

Day 3 in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 

2:5 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. 

2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 

2:7 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. Life in God’s Garden 

2:8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 

2:9 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. 

2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 

2:11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 

2:12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. 

2:13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. 

2:14 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. 

2:15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. 

2:16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 

2:17 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. 

2:18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. 

2:19 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. 

2:20 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. 

2:21 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; 

2:22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 

2:23 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. 

2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 

2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

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