The Seventh Day, God Rests

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, ^qand he ^rrested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

The Creation of Man and Woman

5 When no bush of the field¹ was yet in the land² and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no ^tman to work the ground, 6 and a mist³ was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— 7 then the Lord God formed the man of ^udust from the ground and ^vbreathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and ^wthe man became a living creature. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The ^xtree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

10 A ^yriver flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria.⁴ 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 keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but ^zof the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for ^ain the day that you eat⁵ of it you shall surely ^bdie.”

18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; ^cI will make him a helper fit for⁶ him.” 19 Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed⁷ every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man ^dto see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam⁸ there was not found a helper fit for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a ^edeep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made⁹ into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said,

24 ^hTherefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, ⁱand they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both ^jnaked and were not ashamed.

1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, ^v“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 ^wThe fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 3 ^xEvery moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 ^yBut you shall not eat flesh with its ^zlife, that is, its blood. 5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: ^afrom every beast I will require it and from man. ^bFrom his fellow man I will ^crequire a reckoning for the life of man.

7 And you,¹ be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”

8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you, ^fthat never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 And God said, “This is the ^gsign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 13 I have set my ^hbow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 ⁱWhen I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, 15 I will ^jremember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the ^keverlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

Noah’s Descendants

18 The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and ^lfrom these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.²

20 Noah began to be a ^mman of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.³ 21 He drank of the wine and became ⁿdrunk and lay uncovered in his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the ^onakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. 23 ^pThen Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness. 24 When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,

26 He also said,

28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years. 29 All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.