draft-bible 13 August 2022
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and heaven. 5 And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; because Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 6 And a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And Yahweh god formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. 8 And Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. And the tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers. 11 The name of the first is Pishon: it is the one which goes around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 and the gold of that land is good; bdellium and the onyx stone are there. 13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: it is the one which flows in front of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 And Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it. 16 And Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.
18 And Yahweh God said, It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him. 19 And out of the ground Yahweh God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the sky, 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 And the man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper comparable to him. 21 And Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 And Yahweh God formed the rib which he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. 23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Thefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will become one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.
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