
Genesis 2:4b-25
4 These are the generations of the heavens and
the earth when they were created.
In the day that the Lord God made the earth
and the heavens, 5 when no plant of the field
was yet in the earth and no herb of the field
had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had
not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there
was no one to till the ground; 6 but a stream
would rise from the earth, and water the
whole face of the ground— 7 then the Lord
God formed man from the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and the man became a living
being. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden in
Eden, in the east; and there he put the man
whom he had formed. 9 Out of the ground the
Lord God made 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 the knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river flows out of Eden to water the
garden, and from there it divides and becomes
four branches. 11 The name of the first is
Pishon; it is the one that flows around the
whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12
and the gold of that land is good; bdellium
and onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the
second river is Gihon; it is the one that flows
around the whole land of Cush. 14 The name
of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of
Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in
the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. 16 And
the Lord God commanded the man, “You
may freely eat of every tree of the garden; 17
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you
eat of it you shall die.”
18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good
that the man should be alone; I will make him
a helper as his partner.” 19 So out of the
ground the Lord God formed every animal of
the field and every bird of the air, and brought
them to the man to see what he would call
them; and whatever the man called every
living creature, that was its name. 20 The man
gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of
the air, and to every animal of the field; but
for the man there was not found a helper as
his partner. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep
sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then
he took one of his ribs and closed up its place
with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God
had taken from the man he made into a
woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then
the man said,
“This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
this one shall be called Woman,
for out of Man this one was taken.”
24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his
mother and clings to his wife, and they
become one flesh. 25 And the man and his
wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.