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.

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,