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Genesis 2

Seventh Day (Rest)

¹And heaven and earth were finished and all their host. ²And on the seventh day God put and end to his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. ³And God blessed the seventh day, and set it apart, because in it he rested from all his work that God did in creating.

Forming the Earth

⁴These are the records of heaven and earth when they were created, in the day when YHWH God made earth and heaven, ⁵and every shrub of the field before it was on the earth, and every green plant of the field before it sprouted, because YHWH God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no human being to till the ground. ⁶And a stream used to go up from the earth and it watered all the face of the ground.

The Human and the Garden

⁷And YHWH God formed a human being from dust from the ground, and breathed into itse nostrils living breath, and the human became a living creature. ⁸And YHWH God planted a garden in Eden, to the east, and there he placed the human being whom he had formed. ⁹And YHWH God made every tree that was nice to look at and good for food sprout from the ground, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

River out of Eden

¹⁰And a river went out from Eden to water the garden and from there it separated and became four heads. ¹¹The name of the one was Pishon. It is the one that surrounds the whole land of Havilah whre there is gold. ¹²And the gold from that land is good, there are bdellium and onyx stones. ¹³And the name of the second river is Gihon. It is the one that goes around the whole land of Cush. ¹⁴And the name of the third river was Hideqel. It's the one that goes to the east of Ashur, and the fourth river is Perath (Euphrates). ¹⁵And YHWH God took the human and placed it in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to guard it. ¹⁶And YHWH God commanded the human saying, "From all the trees of the garden you may certainly eat, ¹⁷but from the tree of knowledge of good and evil you may not eat from it, because in the day you eat from it you will definitely die."

The Companion

¹⁸And YHWH God said, "It is not good for the human to be alone. I will make for it a suitable helper." ¹⁹So YHWH God formed from the ground every beast of the field and every bird of heaven, and he brought them to the human to see what he would call them. And whatever the human called a living thing, that was its name. ²⁰And the human gave names to all the beasts, and to the birds of the heavens, and to all the beasts of the field, but for the human there was not found a suitable helper. ²¹And YHWH God made the human sleep deeply, so it slept and God took one of its ribs and closed the flesh instead of it. ²²And YHWH God made the rib which he had taken from the human into a woman, and he brought her to the human. ²³And the human said, "This now is bone of my bones and flesh from my flesh. She will be called woman (ishshah) because she was taken from man (ish)." ²⁴For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will cleave to his wife, and they will become one flesh. ²⁵And the two of them were both naked, the human and his wife, and they were not ashamed.

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