2 S Genesis 1:28
28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in num
ber; fill the e
arth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the b
irds
in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing 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 creatures that move along the ground — everything
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
evening, and there was morning — the sixth day.
2
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the
seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God b
lessed the seventh
day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creat
ing that he had done.
Adam and Eve
4 This is the account of the heavens and the e
arth when they were created,
when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
5 Now no shrub had yet appeared 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 watered the
whole surface of the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formed a man c from the
dust of the g
round and b
reathed into his nostrils the b
reath of life, and the
man became a living being.
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 g
round — trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In
the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil.
10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was sep
arated into four headwaters. 11 The name of the f irst is the Pishon; it winds
through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that
land is good; aromatic resin d and onyx are also there.) 13 The name of the sec
ond river is the Gihon; it winds t hrough the entire land of Cush. e 14 The name
of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the
fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work
it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free
to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be a
lone. I will make a
helper suitable for him.”
19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals
and all the b
irds in the sky. He b
rought them to the man to see what he would
name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its
name. 20 So the man gave n
ames to all the livestock, the b
irds in the sky and
all the wild animals.
But for Adam f no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God c aused the
man to fall into a deep s leep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the
man’s ribs g and then closed up the place with f lesh. 22 Then the Lord God
made a woman from the rib h he had taken out of the man, and he b
rought
her to the man.
a 5 Or
land ; also in verse 6 b 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
verse 20). d 12 Or good; pearls e 13 Possibly southeast Mesopotamia f 20 Or the
man g 21 Or took part of the man’s side h 22 Or part