Genesis

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

By the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day He ceased from all His work.

Then God blessed the seventh day and made it [1] (holy), because on it He rested and desisted from all the work of creation He had done.

These are the origins of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

No shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to cultivate the ground,

but a mist came up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of lives, and the man became a living soul.

Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there He put the man He had formed.

And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the Tree of Life also in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Malice.

A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was divided into four headwaters.

The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also there.

The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.

The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east of Ashur. And the fourth river is the pillbox of the Euphrates.

Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and to guard it.

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you are free to eat;

but of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Malice you shall not eat, for in the day you eat of it, dying you shall die."

And the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make for him a sustainer corresponding to him."

Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living soul, that was its name.

So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for the man, no sustainer was found corresponding to him.

So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, He took one of the man's sides and closed up the flesh in its place.

Then the LORD God fashioned the side He had taken from the man into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Ishah, for she was taken out of Ish."

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.