Genesis 2


2By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

Adam and Eve

4This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LordGod made the earth and the heavens.

5Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earthand no plant had yet sprung up, for the LordGod had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6but streamscame up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7Then the LordGod formed a manfrom the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

8Now the LordGod had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9The LordGod made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

10A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. 11The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12(The gold of that land is good; aromatic resinand onyx are also there.) 13The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.14The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

15The LordGod took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16And the LordGod commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”



But for Adamno suitable helper was found. 21So the LordGod caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribsand then closed up the place with flesh. 22Then the LordGod made a woman from the ribhe had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

23The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;

she shall be called ‘woman,’

for she was taken out of man.”


25Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.