1So the heavens, the earth, and everything in them were completed.
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 creative work he had done.
4This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.
5At that time, no plant of the field was yet on the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up, because Yahweh God had not sent rain on the earth, and there was no human to cultivate the ground.
6Instead, a mist came up from the earth and watered the entire surface of the ground.
7Then Yahweh God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
8Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man he had formed.
9Yahweh God made every tree that was pleasing to the eye and good for food grow out of the ground. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10A river flowed from Eden to water the garden. From there, it separated and became the source of four rivers.
11The first river is named Pishon. It flows through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12The gold of that land is good. Aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there.
13The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the river that flows through the entire land of Cush.
14The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the river that flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
15Yahweh God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and care for it.
16Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “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 on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”
18Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”
19So from the ground, Yahweh God formed every wild animal and every bird of the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature became its name.
20The man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the sky, and every wild animal. But for the man, no helper just right for him was found.
21So Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While he was sleeping, Yahweh God took one of the man's ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.
22From the rib he had taken from the man, Yahweh God made a woman and brought her to the man.
23The man said, “At last! This is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of ‘man.’ ”
24This is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife, and they become one flesh.
25The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.