More Details of the Creation of Heaven & Earth, Man & Animals |
Genesis 2:1-25 The First Book of Moses Called Genesis |
Thus the heavens & the earth & all the host of them, were finished. On the 7th day God ended His work which He had made & He rested on the 7th day from all His work [that] He had made. And God blessed the 7th day & sanctified it, because in it, He rested from all His work which God had created and made. |
These are the generations of the heavens & earth when they were created in the day that the Lord God made the heavens & the earth. Before [any] plant of the field was in the earth or [any] herb of the field [had grown:] for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth & there was no man to [plow] the ground. But a mist went up from the earth & watered the whole [surface] of the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground & breathed into his nostrils the breath of life & man became a living soul. |
The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden & put the man He had formed there. Out of the ground, the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight & good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden & the tree of knowledge of good & evil. A river went out of Eden to water the garden & from there it parted & became 4 [riverheads:] 1st: Pison which [goes around] the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good. There is bdellium & onyx stone there. The 2nd river is Gihon, [which goes around] the whole land of Ethiopia. And the 3rd river is Hiddekel, which goes toward the east of Assyria. The 4th is the Euphrates River. |
[Then] the Lord God took the man & put him into the garden of Eden to [tend it] & keep it. The Lord God commanded man saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but you shall not eat of the tree of knowledge of good & evil: for in the day that you eat [of it,] you shall surely die. The Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a [helper] for him. The Lord God formed out of the ground every beast of the field & every [bird] of the air & brought them to Adam to see what he would call them & [whatever] he called each living creature, [became] its name. Adam gave names to all the cattle [a.k.a. animals,] [birds] of the air & to every beast of the field, but there wasn’t a [helper] found for Adam. |
The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam & [as] he slept, the [Lord God] took one of [Adam’s] ribs & closed up the flesh. The Lord God made woman from the rib He had taken from man & [He] brought her to the man. Adam said, This is now bone of my bones & flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore a man shall leave his father & mother & shall [be joined] to his wife & they shall become one flesh. They were both naked, the man & his wife & were not ashamed. |