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God created mankind in his own image , in the image of God he created them ; male and female he created them .
GENESIS 1:27
28 God blessed them and said to them , “ Be fruit ful and in crease in num ber ; fill the earth and sub due it . Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over ev ery liv ing crea ture that moves on the ground .”
29 Then God said , “ I give you ev ery seedbear ing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it . They will be yours for food . 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the crea tures that move along the ground — ev ery thing that has the breath of life in it — I give every green plant for food .” And it was so .
31 God saw all that he had made , and it was very good . And there was eve ning , and there was morning — the sixth day .
the heav ens and the earth were com pleted in all their vast ar ray .
2 By the sev enth day God had fin ished the work he had been do ing ; so on the sev enth day he rested from all his work . 3 Then God blessed the sev enth day and made it holy , because on it he rested from all the work of cre at ing that he had done .
3 Genesis 2
Adam and Eve
4 This is the ac count of the heav ens and the earth when they were cre ated , when the Lord God made the earth and the heav ens .
5 Now no shrub had yet ap peared on the earth a and no plant had yet sprung up , for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground , 6 but streams b came up from the earth and wa tered the whole sur face of the ground . 7 Then the Lord God formed a man c from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nos trils the breath of life , and the man be came a liv ing be ing .
8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east , in Eden ; and there he put the man he had formed . 9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground — trees that were pleas ing to the eye and good for food . In the mid dle of the gar den were the tree of life and the tree of the knowl edge of good and evil .
10 A river wa ter ing the gar den flowed from Eden ; from there it was sep a rated into four head wa ters . 11 The name of the first is the Pi shon ; it winds through the en tire land of Hav i lah , where there is gold . 12 ( The gold of that land is good ; aro matic resin d and onyx are also there .) 13 The name of the sec ond river is the Gihon ; it winds through the en tire land of Cush . e 14 The name of the third river is the Ti gris ; it runs along the east side of Ashur . And the fourth river is the Eu phra tes .
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Gar den of Eden to work it and take care of it . 16 And the Lord God com manded the man , “ You are free to eat from any tree in the gar den ; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowl edge of good and evil , for when you eat from it you will cer tainly die .”
18 The Lord God said , “ It is not good for the man to be alone . I will make a helper suit able for him .”
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5 Or land ; also in verse 6 6 Or mist c
7 The Hebrew for man ( adam ) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for ground ( adamah ); it is also the name Adam ( see d
verse 20 ). 12 Or good ; pearls e
13 Possibly southeast Mesopotamia