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Genesis chapter 2
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So the and the and everything in them were .By the God had finished the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day he from all his work.God the seventh day and , because on that day he rested from all the work of creating he had done.This is the of the skies and the land when they were created. On the day that made land and sky —no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, because Yahweh God had not sent rain on the land and there was no to work the .But came up from the land and watered the whole surface of the ground.Then Yahweh God the from the of the ground and breathed the into his nostrils, and the human became a .Now Yahweh God planted a in the east, in , and there he placed the human he had formed.Yahweh God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground — trees that were beautiful to look at and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the and the tree of the .A flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided into four branches.The name of the first is the — it winds through the entire land of , where there is gold.The gold of that land is pure; and are also found there.The name of the second river is the — it winds through the entire land of .The name of the third river is the — it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the .Yahweh God took the human and settled him in the garden of Eden to it and it.And Yahweh God the human, “You are from any tree in the garden,”“but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because the day you eat from it, you will .”Then Yahweh God said, “It is for the human to be alone. I will make a .”Now Yahweh God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the human to see what he would them, and whatever the human called each living creature, that became its name.So the human gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky, and all the wild animals. But for the human, .So Yahweh God caused the human to fall into a , and while he was sleeping, he took one of his and closed up the flesh in its place.Then Yahweh God the side he had taken from the human into a and brought her to the human.The human said, “ This one — ! She will be called ‘’ because she was taken from man.”That is why a man his father and mother and is to his wife, and they become .The man and his wife were both , and they felt no .